13 Bible Verses about Depression, Symptoms

If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."

And she went and {she sat a good distance away}, for she said, "Let me not see the child's death." So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept.

Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the {Israelites} have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, [for] the salvation of his presence.

"My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; [the] graveyard [is] for me.

So I say, "{Oh, that} I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest. Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah I would hurry to my refuge from [the] raging wind [and] storm."

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?

He sent from a high position [and] took me; he drew me from mighty waters.

Yahweh [is] near to [those who are] heartbroken and saves [those who are] crushed in spirit.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

You have shown your people hard [things]; You have given us wine that staggers.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.

And joy and rejoicing have been taken away from [the] fruitful land, even from the land of Moab. And [the] wine from [the] wine presses I have caused to disappear. He will not tread [with] exuberant shouts. Exuberant shouts [will] not [be] exuberant shouts.