I believed, therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”

many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,