Afflictions

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 2 Kings 6:33 OT

  While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

• Job 5:6 OT

  For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

• Job 5:17 OT

  “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

• Psalms 66:11 OT

  You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

• Amos 3:6 OT

  Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

• Micah 6:9 OT

  Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

• Job 11:10 OT

  If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

• Isaiah 10:15 OT

  Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

• Isaiah 45:7 OT

  I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

• Psalms 80:5 OT

  You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

• Isaiah 9:1 OT

  But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the…

• Jeremiah 46:28 OT

  Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way…

• Genesis 15:13 OT

  He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 15:14 OT

  I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

• Numbers 14:33 OT

  Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

• Isaiah 10:25 OT

  For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

• Jeremiah 29:10 OT

  For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

• Lamentations 3:33 OT

  For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

• Job 5:7 OT

  but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

• Job 14:1 OT

  “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:3 NT

  that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

• Genesis 3:16-19 OT

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and…

• Job 4:8 OT

  According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

• Job 20:11 OT

  His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.