46 Bible Verses about Depression

But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.

And whenever the evil spirit from God came on Saul, David took his instrument and made music: so new life came to Saul, and he got well, and the evil spirit went away from him.

Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

He will give his angels orders to take care of you:

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.

Now the spirit of the Lord had gone from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord was troubling him.

But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?

And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.

And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall;

And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching:

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

Have joy at all times.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.

And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?