'Misery' in the Bible
"Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son," the angel of the LORD continued to say to her. "You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of misery.
Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I [am] unloved. Now my husband will love me."
If the God of my father the God of Abraham, the God whom Isaac feared had not been with me, you would have sent me away empty handed. But God saw my misery and how hard I've worked with my own hands and he rebuked you last night."
And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.
For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."
Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings.
And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.
The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had paid attention to them and that He had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”
So we called out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.
Then you will eat the offspring of your own body [to avoid starvation], the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you.
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have devastated me! You have brought great misery on me. I have given my word to the Lord and cannot take it back.”
Hannah made a vow: "LORD of the Heavenly Armies, if you just look at the misery of your maid servant, remember me, and don't forget your maid servant. If you give your maid servant a son, then I'll give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and a razor is never to touch his head."
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom).
For the LORD observed Israel's bitter misery, and there was no one left, neither slave nor free, and there was no deliverer for Israel.
Then I said to them, "You see the misery that we are in, that Jerusalem is ruined and its gates burned by the fire. Come, build the walls of Jerusalem and we shall no longer be a disgrace."
"You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea.
Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
‘If I am wicked, woe to me!And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
At the height of his success distress will come to him;the full weight of misery will crush him.
"And now my life is poured out onto me; days of misery have taken hold of me.
My bowels are in turmoil, and they are not still; days of misery come to confront me.
"And if [they] are tied up with fetters, [if] they are caught in [the] cords of misery,
He delivers [the] afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.
Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.
See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins.
I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.
Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?
You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?
In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,Prisoners in misery and chains,
They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;Their soul melted away in their misery.
When they are diminished and bowed downThrough oppression, misery and sorrow,
But he protects [the] needy from misery, and he makes [their] families like a flock.
This [is] my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life.
Unless your law [had been] my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.
Look on my misery, and rescue me, for I do not ignore your instruction.
What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!
No disaster overcomes the righteous,but the wicked are full of misery.
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.
‘You have said, “Woe is me, because the Lord has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.”’
Judah has gone into exile with misery and under hard servitude; she lives among the nations, she has not found a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her amidst [her] distress.
Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.
They hear that I was groaning; [there is] no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring [that] day that you have proclaimed, And let them be like me.
I am a man who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath.
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Also, O Judah, there is a harvest [of divine judgment] appointed for you,When I restore the fortunes of My people [who have been slaves to the misery of sin].
“These who pant after (long to see) the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless [as sign of their grief and distress]Also turn aside the way of the humble;And a man and his father will go to the same girlSo that My holy name is profaned.
Announce this in the fortified citadels of Ashdod, and in the fortified citadels of the land of Egypt. Tell them, "Gather together on the mountains of Samaria; look at the great misery among the citadels, along with the oppression within Egypt.'
Do not enter the gate of My peoplein the day of their disaster.Yes, you—do not gloat over their miseryin the day of their disasterand do not appropriate their possessionsin the day of their disaster.
The LORD God prepared a vine plant, and it grew over Jonah to shade his head and provide relief from his misery. Jonah was happy indeed, he was ecstatic about the vine plant.
Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
Woe to those women who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For great trouble and anguish will be on the land, and wrath and retribution on this people [Israel].
After they had gone a long time without food [because of seasickness and stress], Paul stood up before them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice and should not have set sail from Crete, and brought on this damage and loss.
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
whose fate is destruction, whose god is their belly [their worldly appetite, their sensuality, their vanity], and whose glory is in their shame—who focus their mind on earthly and temporal things.
But our way is not that of those who shrink back to destruction, but [we are] of those who believe [relying on God through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by this confident faith preserve the soul.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].
Just as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, inflict on her just as much torture and misery. In her heart she says, "I am a queen on a throne, not a widow. I will never see misery.'
For this reason, her diseases that result in death, misery, and famine will come in a single day. She will be burned up in a fire, because powerful is the Lord God who judges her."