45 Bible Verses about Despair

every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;

And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.

persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living ...!

so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.

But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

But as for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd in following thee, neither have I desired the fatal day, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

For him that is fainting kindness is meet from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, for the health of his countenance.

And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

Nevertheless the darkness shall not be as when the distress was in the land, at the time he at first lightly, and afterwards heavily, visited the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.

{A Song of degrees.} Out of the depths do I call upon thee, Jehovah.

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.

Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.

From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my eart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.

For the day is at hand, yea, the day of Jehovah is at hand, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the nations.

And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white stuffs shall be ashamed.

And as she was dying, the women that stood by her said, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she did not answer, neither did she take it to heart.

If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

It is joy to a righteous man to do what is right; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me to seek me any more within all the limits of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.

My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with astonishment, because her land shall be left desolate of all that is in it, for the violence of all them that dwell therein.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.

And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.

The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly. The voice of the day of Jehovah: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.