45 Bible Verses about Despair

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Why art thou cast down, O 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.

As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou 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, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

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

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

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

{A Song of degrees.} Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to 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 shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

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

And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

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 find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

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