But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

The second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.

He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.

If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.

Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’

If these men die a natural death and suffer the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me.

But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor.

Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.

and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them.

Furthermore, the king should know that if this city is built and its walls are restored, no more taxes, tribute or duty will be paid, and eventually the royal revenues will suffer.

“You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt; you heard their cry at the Red Sea.

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

“And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.

The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.