45 Bible Verses about Despair
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Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed;
And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.
For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:
Will ye purpose to reprove words, and for the spirit of the words of him despairing?
So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.
And I turned about to let my heart despair for all the labor I labored under the sun.
And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:
I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed.
Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face, and my God.
And I withdrew not from following after thee; I desired not man's day, thou knewest: the going forth of my lips was straight before thee.
To him melting, mercy from his friend; and he will forsake the fear of the Almighty.
Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.
To set to those mourning in Zion, to give to them adorning instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the vestment of praise for the spirit of faintness; and it shall be called to them, The mighty trees of justice of the planting of Jehovah, to be honored.
Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;
Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.
And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment
For the fainting not to what the straits to her according to the time of the first he made light the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali; and afterward he made heavy the way of the sea beyond Jordan of Galilee of the nations.
If the scourge shall fall suddenly, he will deride at the trial of the innocent
Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not
In my straits I will call upon Jehovah, and to my God will I cry: he will hear my voice from his temple, and my cry will come before him into his ears.
Wait for Jehovah: be strong, and thy heart shall be strengthened: and wait for Jehovah.
From the end of the earth I will call to thee, in the fainting of my heart: thou wilt lead me into the rock it will be lifted up above me.
For the day is near, the day of Jehovah is near, the day of a cloud; it shall be the time of the nations.
And they working hatcheled flax and they weaving white linens were ashamed.
And about the time of her death, and they standing by will speak to her, Thou shalt not be afraid, for thou broughtest forth a son. And she answered not, and set not her heart
Wilt thou be discouraged in the day of straits thy strength is narrow.
Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.
And I gave to her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she was humbled there as the days of her youth and as the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt
And David will say in his heart, Now shall I be added one day into the hand of Saul: nothing good to me but escaping, I will escape into the land of the rovers; and Saul despairing to seek me farther in all the bound of Israel: and I was saved out of his hand.
O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness
And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:
For not forever will I contend, and not to everlasting will I be angry: for the spirit will faint from before me, and the lives I made.
And say to the people of the land, Thus said the Lord Jehovah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the land of Israel: they shall eat their bread with dread, and they shall drink their waters with astonishment, that her land shall be laid waste from her fulness from the violence of all dwelling in her.
I said in my alarm, Every man a lie.
Attend to my cry, for I languished greatly: deliver me from those pursuing me, for they were strengthened above me.
And among these nations thou shalt not rest, and there shall not be rest to the sole of thy foot: and Jehovah gave to thee there a trembling heart and a wasting away of the eyes, and a faintnesss of soul.
The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hastening greatly, the voice of the day of Jehovah: the strong one cried there bitterly.
From Thematic Bible
Despair » General references to
And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And Moses spake thus to the sons of Israel: and they heard not to Moses for shortness of spirit, and from hard work.
And thou wert mad from the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:
Despair » Leads men to desire death
And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil
And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
And death was chosen above life to all the remnant of those being left from this evil family, in all the places being left where I cast them out there, says Jehovah of armies.
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father.
Truly this therefore purchased a place from the wages of iniquity; and being bent forward, he brake in pieces in the midst, and all his entrails were poured out.
And it will be when Zimri saw that the city was taken, and he will come to the fortress of the king's house, and he will burn over him the king's house with fire, and he will die,
And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self.
And Saul will say to him lifting up his arms, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised shall come and thrust me through and mock upon me. And he lifting up his arms would not, for he will fear greatly; and Saul will take the sword and will fall upon it
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
And thou wert mad from the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
In the morning thou shalt say, Who shall give evening? and in the evening thou shalt say, Who shall give morning? from the feat of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And passing through it, harshly oppressed and hungry; and it was when he shall be hungry, and they brake forth and cursed against their king and their God, and looked upwards.
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain, And they blasphemed the God of heaven for their pains and for their sores, and they repented not of their work.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Withhold thy foot from being barefoot, and thy throat from thirst: and thou wilt say, Despairing, no; for I loved strangers, and after them will I go.
And they said, We shall despair; for after our purposes we will go, and we will do each the stubbornness of his evil heart
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.
Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
And Cain will say to Jehovah, My sin is great, above bearing. Lo, thou didst drive me out this day from above the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be wandering and fleeing in the earth; and it shall be, every one finding me will kill me.
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
And they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him sitting upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father.
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Psalm 42:5Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.
Despair, Remedies For
Psalm 42:5Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.
