Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Psalms 119:92 OT

  Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

• Psalms 119:143 OT

  Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

• Psalms 138:3 OT

  In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

• Psalms 138:7 OT

  Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

• Psalms 138:8 OT

  Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

• Psalms 140:12 OT

  I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

• Psalms 145:14 OT

  Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

• Psalms 147:3 OT

  He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

• Proverbs 12:13 OT

  An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

• Ecclesiastes 4:1 OT

  Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

• Isaiah 4:6 OT

  There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

• Isaiah 14:31 OT

  Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

• Isaiah 14:32 OT

  What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

• Isaiah 25:4 OT

  For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

• Isaiah 30:19 OT

  For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

• Isaiah 30:20 OT

  Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

• Isaiah 40:1 OT

  “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

• Isaiah 40:2 OT

  “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

• Isaiah 40:29 OT

  He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

• Isaiah 41:10 OT

  Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

• Isaiah 41:13 OT

  For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

• Isaiah 41:14 OT

  Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 41:17 OT

  The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

• Isaiah 42:3 OT

  He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.