Afflictions

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Proverbs 1:31 OT

  Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

• 2 Samuel 12:14 OT

  However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

• Psalms 89:30-32 OT

  If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

• Isaiah 57:17 OT

  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

• Acts 13:10 NT

  and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

• Acts 13:11 NT

  Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

• Job 16:7-16 OT

  But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate. You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted…

• Psalms 42:7 OT

  Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

• Psalms 66:12 OT

  You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

• Jonah 2:3 OT

  For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

• Revelation 7:14 NT

  I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

• Ezra 9:13 OT

  “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

• Psalms 103:10 OT

  He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

• Genesis 50:20 OT

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

• Exodus 1:11 OT

  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

• Exodus 1:12 OT

  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 8:15 OT

  who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

• Deuteronomy 8:16 OT

  who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

• Jeremiah 24:5 OT

  “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

• Jeremiah 24:6 OT

  For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

• Ezekiel 20:37 OT

  “I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

• Psalms 78:38 OT

  But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

• Psalms 78:39 OT

  He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

• Psalms 106:43-46 OT

  He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to…