Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict

… soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

… her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the …

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate

… said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, …

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am …

… our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

… LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of …

… the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work

… and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.