Afflicted

The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

“This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.

The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people out so they could go on their way?

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous forehead, they rushed him out. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had afflicted him.

Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.

Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.

He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.

For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

I believed, therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.

For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

…and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.

This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.

So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

…and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.