Psalms 34:19

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.

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

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.