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Bible Verses About Distress

This collection includes 50 passages about Distress. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

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Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

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The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

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We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

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Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

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Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

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Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

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Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

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For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

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Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

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Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

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Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

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I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

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In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

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Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

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For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

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

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In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

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For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

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Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

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As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

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And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

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The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

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From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

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And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

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I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

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Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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