Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Psalms 31:9-13 OT

  Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. Because of all…

• Psalms 32:3 OT

  When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

• Psalms 32:4 OT

  For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

• Psalms 39:1-4 OT

  I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.” I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within…

• Psalms 42:6 OT

  My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

• Psalms 55:4-8 OT

  My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me. I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. Behold,…

• Psalms 66:10-12 OT

  For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined. You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the…

• Psalms 69:1-3 OT

  Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

• Psalms 69:20 OT

  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

• Psalms 73:10 OT

  Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

• Psalms 77:2-4 OT

  In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. You hold my eyelids open. I…

• Psalms 80:6 OT

  You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

• Psalms 88:3-18 OT

  For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more.…

• Psalms 89:32 OT

  then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

• Psalms 90:10 OT

  The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

• Psalms 102:3-11 OT

  For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin. I am like a pelican of the…

• Psalms 107:4 OT

  They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

• Psalms 107:5 OT

  Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

• Psalms 107:10 OT

  Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

• Psalms 107:17-19 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 109:22-24 OT

  for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust. My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

• Psalms 116:3 OT

  The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

• Psalms 141:7 OT

  “As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

• Psalms 143:3 OT

  For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.