Lexicon :: Strong's H6040 - ʿŏnî

The angel of the LORD said to her, “You have conceived and will have a son. You will name him Ishmael,[fn] for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

“If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,[fn] and he issued his verdict last night.”

And the second son he named Ephraim[fn] and said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Then the LORD said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,

“And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites ​— ​a land flowing with milk and honey.

The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD had paid attention to them and that he had seen their misery, they knelt low and worshiped.

“Do not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship ​— ​because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry ​— ​so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

“So we called out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.

Making a vow, she pleaded, “LORD of Armies, if you will take notice of your servant’s affliction, remember and not forget me, and give your servant a son, I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.”[fn]

For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter for both slaves and free people.[fn] There was no one to help Israel.

“Notice I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD ​— ​3,775 tons of gold, 37,750 tons of silver,[fn] and bronze and iron that can’t be weighed because there is so much of it. I have also provided timber and stone, but you will need to add more to them.

You saw the oppression of our ancestors in Egypt

and heard their cry at the Red Sea.

“If I am wicked, woe to me!

And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.

I am filled with shame

and have drunk deeply of[fn] my affliction.

Now my life is poured out before me,

and days of suffering have seized me.

I am churning within[fn] and cannot rest;

days of suffering confront me.

If people are bound with chains

and trapped by the cords of affliction,

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction;

he instructs them by their torment.

Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity,

for that is why you have been tested by[fn] affliction.

Be gracious to me, LORD;

consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me.

Lift me up from the gates of death,

Consider my affliction and trouble,

and forgive all my sins.

I will rejoice and be glad in your faithful love

because you have seen my affliction.

You know the troubles of my soul

Why do you hide

and forget our affliction and oppression?

My eyes are worn out from crying.

LORD, I cry out to you all day long;

I spread out my hands to you.

Others sat in darkness and gloom[fn] —

prisoners in cruel chains —

But he lifts the needy out of their suffering

and makes their families multiply like flocks.

This is my comfort in my affliction:

Your promise has given me life.

If your instruction had not been my delight,

I would have died in my affliction.

Consider my affliction and rescue me,

for I have not forgotten your instruction.

Otherwise, he will drink,

forget what is decreed,

and pervert justice for all the oppressed.[fn]

“Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;

I have tested[fn] you in the furnace of affliction.

Judah has gone into exile

following[fn] affliction and harsh slavery;

she lives among the nations

but finds no place to rest.

All her pursuers have overtaken her

in narrow places.

During the days of her affliction and homelessness

Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings

that were hers in days of old.

When her people fell into the adversary’s hand,

she had no one to help.

The adversaries looked at her,

laughing over her downfall.

Her uncleanness stains her skirts.

She never considered her end.

Her downfall was astonishing;

there was no one to comfort her.

LORD, look on my affliction,

for the enemy boasts.

I am the man who has seen affliction

under the rod of God’s wrath.

Remember[fn] my affliction and my homelessness,

the wormwood and the poison.