Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Job 33:16-30 OT

  Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is chastened also with pain…

• Job 36:8-10 OT

  If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they…

• Psalms 66:10 OT

  For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

• Psalms 106:43 OT

  He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

• Psalms 106:44 OT

  Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

• Psalms 107:10-14 OT

  Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High. Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell…

• Psalms 107:17-21 OT

  Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities. Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death. Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.…

• Psalms 107:23-31 OT

  Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters; These see Yahweh’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep. For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. They mount up to the sky; they go down…

• Ecclesiastes 7:14 OT

  In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

• Isaiah 1:25-27 OT

  I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin. I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a…

• Isaiah 4:3 OT

  It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,

• Isaiah 4:4 OT

  when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

• Isaiah 9:14 OT

  Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

• Isaiah 52:5 OT

  “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

• Isaiah 52:6 OT

  Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”

• Lamentations 1:5 OT

  Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

• Ezekiel 6:10 OT

  They will know that I am Yahweh. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.” ’

• Ezekiel 14:10 OT

  They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;

• Ezekiel 14:11 OT

  that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

• Daniel 4:25-27 OT

  that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the…

• Daniel 4:34 OT

  At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his…

• Amos 4:6 OT

  “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• 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.

• Malachi 3:3 OT

  and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.