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Afflictions And Adversities
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Psalm 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.Psalm 143:8Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.Psalm 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.Psalm 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.Psalm 143:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.Psalm 143:12And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.Psalm 145:14The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.Psalm 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.Proverbs 1:26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.Proverbs 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.Proverbs 3:11My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;Proverbs 3:12for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.Proverbs 3:25Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,Proverbs 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.Proverbs 6:15Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.Proverbs 12:25Anxiety weighs down the heart of a man, but a good word cheers it up.Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.Proverbs 15:13A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.Proverbs 15:15All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.Proverbs 17:3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.Proverbs 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.Proverbs 17:22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?Proverbs 24:10If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!Ecclesiastes 2:22For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?Ecclesiastes 2:23Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.Ecclesiastes 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.Ecclesiastes 7:4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.Ecclesiastes 7:14In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.Isaiah 1:6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.Isaiah 1:25I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.Isaiah 1:26I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”Isaiah 1:27Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.Isaiah 4:3Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—Isaiah 4:4when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.Isaiah 4:6a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.Isaiah 9:1Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:Isaiah 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.Isaiah 9:14So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.Isaiah 10:25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”Isaiah 14:31Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.Isaiah 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”Isaiah 19:20It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.Isaiah 19:22And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.Isaiah 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—Isaiah 24:2people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.Isaiah 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.