33 Bible Verses About God's Presence in Suffering

And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

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

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

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

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

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.