Quotes about Adversity

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

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

They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.

“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

Can anyone smash iron—iron from the north—or bronze?

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.