Afflictions and Adversities: Often Severe

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. …

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.