Quotes about Adversity
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.
- Genesis 41:23
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
- Genesis 42:36
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 43:1
As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
- Genesis 50:20
He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”
- Exodus 14:25
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- Leviticus 26:16
And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- Leviticus 26:17
And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
- Leviticus 26:23
Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
- Deuteronomy 7:20
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
- Deuteronomy 28:16
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Deuteronomy 28:23
The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:24