Quotes About Affliction

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

I believed, therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.