Quotes about Adversity

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.

When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”

So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.

He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man five cubits tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s beam in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.

Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

together with all the details of his reign, his might, and the circumstances that came upon him and Israel and all the kingdoms of the lands.

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

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

See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”