23 Bible Verses about God Troubling

Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.’”

For thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land
At this time,
And will cause them distress,
That they may be found.”

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was severely dealt out to me,
Which the Lord inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

Her adversaries have become her masters,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her transgressions;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives before the adversary.

Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me?

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.

I will bring distress on men
So that they will walk like the blind,
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
And their blood will be poured out like dust
And their flesh like dung.

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’

For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;
Then You planted them;
You afflicted the peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,

Fools, because of their rebellious way,
And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

I say to you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.”

Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

And they cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”

and shouting with a loud voice, he *said, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!”

Seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell before Him, and said in a loud voice, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me.”