45 Bible Verses about Despair

in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and gave sureness to my steps.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;

Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind?

I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overwhelming sorrow.

And I turned to cause my heart to despair over all the labor which I did under the sun.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.

I have not hurried away from shepherding after You; nor have I desired the woeful day; You surely know the going forth of my lips before Your face.

To him who is afflicted, pity is due from his friend, but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.

who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us,

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and moan within me? Hope in God; for I shall praise Him for the salvation of His face.

And He said to 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 in silence,

Yet there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish, as in the former time. He degraded the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, so afterwards He will glorify the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the innocent.

A Song of degrees. Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Jehovah.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

In my distress I called on Jehovah, and I cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, into His ears.

Hope in Jehovah; be of good courage, and He shall make your heart strong; yea, hope in Jehovah.

From the end of the earth I cry to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the Rock higher than I.

For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near, a cloudy day. It shall be the time of the nations.

And the workers in fine flax, and the weavers of white cloth shall be ashamed.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, Do not fear, for you have borne a son. But she did not answer, nor set her heart.

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not set your soul on making him die.

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 conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

It is joy to the just to do judgment, but ruin shall be to the workers of iniquity.

And I will give her vineyards to her from there, 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. Nothing is 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 border of Israel, and so I shall escape out of his hand.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

And I said, My strength and my hope from Jehovah are gone.

For I will not contend forever, nor will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls I have made.

And say to the people of the land: So says the Lord Jehovah of the people of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, so that her land may be desolated of her fullness, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Have you gone to the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?

Hear my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers; for they are stronger than I.

And among these nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest. But Jehovah shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.

The great day of Jehovah is near; it is near and rushing greatly, the voice of the day of Jehovah. The mighty man shall cry bitterly there.