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16 Bible Verses About God Being With Us Through Hard Times

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Summary

  • Every one of these promises turns on “through”: through the waters, through the valley — never around.
  • Psalm 23 switches from talking about God to talking to him at the exact verse the valley appears, and never switches back.
  • Psalm 121 opens with a question, not a statement: where does my help come from, answered in the line after it.
  • Matthew 11 offers a different yoke rather than no yoke: the load changes shape, it does not go.
  • Lamentations was written in the ruins of a city God had allowed to fall, and its evidence is that the disaster stopped short.

These passages promise company in the trouble rather than a way out of it. Isaiah has people passing through the waters, and the promise attached is I will be with you. Psalm 23 walks through the valley rather than around it. Joshua is told God will be with him wherever he goes, without a destination named. The rest of the material says where God is said to stand, what to do with the weight, and where to look. The sixteen…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The fire that follows the water is at Isaiah 43:2b.

Psalm 23 speaks of God in the third person at verses 1-3 and to him from verse 4 onwards.

Nahum’s image of anger is at Nahum 1:2-6.

The friend who betrayed the psalmist is described at Psalm 55:12-14; Peter quotes the verse at 1 Peter 5:7.

Psalm 121 is one of the Songs of Ascents, sung by pilgrims travelling up to Jerusalem.

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