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The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

…and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

And she made a vow, saying, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”

For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,

Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

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

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.

Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

…lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.