Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

… fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

… your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

… do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, …

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

… become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing …

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice …

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are …

And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—

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

Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Surely the righteous will praise Your name; the upright will dwell in Your presence.