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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Exodus 4:11

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Deuteronomy 4:5–31

See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess. / Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” / For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Deuteronomy 28:15–68

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: / You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. / Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Ruth 1:20, 21

“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me. / I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God 1 Samuel 2:6, 7

The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. / The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God 2 Samuel 16:10

But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God 2 Kings 6:33

While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God 2 Kings 15:5

And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God 2 Chronicles 7:12–22

the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. / If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, / and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 1:21

saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 5:6, 17, 18

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. / Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. / For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 9:12, 22

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’ / It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 10:8

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 11:10

If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 12:14–25

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. / If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land. / True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 19:6, 21

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. / Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 23:16

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 27:2

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 30:11

Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Job 34:29

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 66:11

You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 71:20

Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 78:31–34

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel. / In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe. / So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 88:6, 7, 16

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths. / Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah / Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 89:38–45

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one. / You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust. / You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 90:7, 15

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. / Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Psalm 102:10, 23

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside. / He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Isaiah 30:20

The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Jeremiah 45:3

You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Lamentations 1:5

Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Lamentations 3:1

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Daniel 4:24–26

This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king: / You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes. / As for the command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots, your kingdom will be restored to you as soon as you acknowledge that Heaven rules.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Amos 3:6

If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Jonah 2:3

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Micah 1:12

For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God 1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Hebrews 12:10

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God Revelation 3:19

Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

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