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 625–648 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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then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. “If there…
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Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.
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Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
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They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
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“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of…
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Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh,…
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Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh. Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court; and he said, “Yahweh,…
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Nehemiah 4:4 OT
“Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
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Nehemiah 4:5 OT
Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
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Nehemiah 4:9 OT
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.
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Nehemiah 6:9 OT
For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
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“Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”
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Job 10:2 OT
I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
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Job 10:9 OT
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
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Job 10:15 OT
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
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Job 13:21 OT
withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
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Job 16:20 OT
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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Psalms 3:1 OT
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
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Psalms 3:2 OT
Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”
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Psalms 3:7 OT
Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
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Psalms 4:1 OT
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
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Psalms 5:8 OT
Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
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Psalms 6:1-7 OT
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath. Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled. My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long? Return, Yahweh.…
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Psalms 7:1 OT
Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,