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Afflictions And Adversities
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Jeremiah 32:23They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.Jeremiah 32:24See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!Jeremiah 32:25Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”Jeremiah 39:17But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear.Jeremiah 39:18For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.’”Jeremiah 45:3You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”Jeremiah 46:28And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”Jeremiah 49:3Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.Jeremiah 49:5Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.Lamentations 1:5Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.Lamentations 1:7In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.Lamentations 1:9Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.Lamentations 1:11All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.Lamentations 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?Lamentations 1:18The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.Lamentations 1:20See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.Lamentations 2:18The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.Lamentations 3:2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.Lamentations 3:3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.Lamentations 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.Lamentations 3:5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.Lamentations 3:6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.Lamentations 3:10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.Lamentations 3:13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.Lamentations 3:16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.Lamentations 3:17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.Lamentations 3:20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.Lamentations 3:21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:Lamentations 3:22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.Lamentations 3:23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!Lamentations 3:24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.Lamentations 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.Lamentations 3:27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.Lamentations 3:28Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.Lamentations 3:29Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.Lamentations 3:30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.Lamentations 3:31For the Lord will not cast us off forever.Lamentations 3:32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.Lamentations 3:33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.Lamentations 3:34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,Lamentations 3:35to deny a man justice before the Most High,Lamentations 3:36to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.Lamentations 3:39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?Lamentations 3:57You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!Lamentations 5:17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—