'Trouble' in the Bible

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians;

And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the children of Lot.

When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.

And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.

And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?

And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.

Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?

And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

And the Philistines, full of fear, said, God has come into their tents. And they said, Trouble is ours! for never before has such a thing been seen.

Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.

Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.

And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.

And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was in great trouble, and said to him, See now, your servant has given ear to your words, and I have put my life in danger by doing what you said.

And David made answer to Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, By the living Lord, who has kept me safe from all my trouble,

And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

But when King David had news of all these things he was very angry; but he did not make trouble for Amnon his son, for he was dear to David, being his oldest son.

And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

David said to him, If you go on with me, you will be a trouble to me:

I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears.

They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low.

But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

And God sent another trouble-maker, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had gone in flight from his lord, Hadadezer, king of Zobah:

He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.

(So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)

And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab.

And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.

So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)

And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.

After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

If evil comes on us, the sword, or punishment, or disease, or need of food, we will come to this house and to you, (for your name is in this house,) crying to you in our trouble, and you will give us salvation in answer to our cry.

You say, See, I have overcome Edom; and your heart is lifted up with pride: now keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.

And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.

And I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there.

Be certain to do this with all care: do not let trouble be increased to the king's damage.

They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;

And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.

And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;