Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.