Afflictions and Adversities
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Afflictions and Adversities’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 289–312 of 862 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
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“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
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Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
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My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
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Hosea 6:1 OT
“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
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Jonah 2:1-10 OT
Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly. He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice. For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of…
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He said, “A certain man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them. Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and…
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Acts 8:24 NT
Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”
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Genesis 45:5 OT
Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
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Genesis 45:7 OT
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
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Genesis 45:8 OT
So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s…
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because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept…
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But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
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Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
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Jonah 2:7 OT
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
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Luke 15:21 NT
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
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God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
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Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur. He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress…
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Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
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He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.
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Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
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Exodus 3:7 OT
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.