13 Bible Verses about Depression, Symptoms

If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.

She sat across from him at a distance. She thought: I cannot watch the boy die. She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

He said: I have been zealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts. The children of Israel have not kept your agreement (covenant). They have destroyed your altars. They killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I, am the only one living. Now they seek to take my life too.

Why am I discouraged? Why am I so restless? I put my hope in God for I will still praise him. He is my salvation and my God.

My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. The grave is waiting for me.

I said: If only I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and find rest. I would run far away. I would stay in the desert. I would hurry to a place of refuge from the raging wind and storm.

([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning?

You reached down from high above and took hold of me. You pulled me out of the raging water.

Jehovah is near to those whose hearts and minds are humble and contrite. He saves the broken hearted and crushed in spirit.

A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

The people who walk in darkness (ignorance) (lies) have seen a great light (truth). A light has dawned on those who live in the land of the shadow of death (the grave) (calamity).

Joy and gladness are taken from the fruitful orchards and fields and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the wine presses. No one walks on the grapes with shouts of joy. There are shouts, but they are not shouts of joy.