Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 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 5:6 OT

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

• 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.

• Proverbs 1:31 OT

  Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

• 2 Samuel 12:14 OT

  However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

• Psalms 89:30-32 OT

  If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

• Isaiah 57:17 OT

  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

• Acts 13:10 NT

  and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

• Acts 13:11 NT

  Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

• Job 16:7-16 OT

  But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate. You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted…

• Psalms 42:7 OT

  Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.