36 Bible Verses About Hope in Suffering

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

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.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

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

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

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

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

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

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;