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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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

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

But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.

For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger.

Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.

ר Resh

Look on my suffering and deliver me, for I have not forgotten your law.

On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you,

The Suffering and Glory of the Servant

See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.