Quotes about Adversity
You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
— Hosea 13:9
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
— Joel 3:10
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
— Amos 6:14
“Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”
— Jonah 1:12
Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
— Jonah 1:13
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.
— Jonah 2:3
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
— Micah 7:8
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
— Habakkuk 3:17
Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.
— Matthew 4:11
But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
— Matthew 13:6
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
— Matthew 13:7
But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
— Matthew 13:21