45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity take note that God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Know this also, that in the last days grievous times will be at hand.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah. A Song "For the Virgins". God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

And Jehovah gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction; yet your teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers.

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

But none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my strong tower and hiding-place in the day of my trouble.

In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah; my hand was poured in the night, and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

Did I not weep for him whose day was hard; and my soul grieved for the poor?

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them. For I will not hear them in the time they cry to Me for their trouble.

Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing psalms.

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he who acts wisely toward the poor; Jehovah will deliver him in time of trouble.

In the day when I cried You answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul.

You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us to drink the wine of trembling.

For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His shelter, in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me up on a rock.

in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;

Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him.

I called on Jehovah in distress; Jehovah answered me, and set me in a large place.

and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

for you shall forget your misery, and you shall remember it as waters that pass away.

Trust in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

And He will be the security of your times, and strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of Jehovah is his treasure.

So the understanding ones shall keep silent in that time; for it is an evil time.

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

Jehovah said, Truly I will free you for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the gain of the wicked is trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, Rejoice!

And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy! For the sons have come to the birth, and no strength to bring forth.

But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,

For man also does not know his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly continuing in prayer,

for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.

Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.