61 Bible Verses About Setbacks

Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.

And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.

The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.

Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died;

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:

And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.