After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

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

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

Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

… numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.

The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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