45 Bible Verses about Despair

We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat.

He brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay; he set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.

Brethren, I would not have you ignorant of our trouble, which happened unto us in Asia. For we were grieved out of measure passing strength, so greatly that we despaired even of life.

We are persecuted: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: nevertheless we perish not.

Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain?

I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

So that now contrariwise ye ought to forgive him and comfort him: lest that same person should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness.

So I turned me to refrain my mind from all such travail, as I took under the Sun:

Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -

I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

Why art thou so heavy, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God, for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

And I enforced not to be a shepherd that should not follow thee: and the day of destruction have I not desired, thou knowest. And that proceeded out of my mouth was right in thy sight.

like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

Why art thou so vexed, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

That I might give unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty in the stead of ashes, joyful ointment for sighing, pleasant raiment for a heavy mind; That they might be called excellent in righteousness, a planting of the LORD for him to rejoice in.

and which delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver - on whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliver us,

Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? Put thy trust in God; for I will give him thanks for the help of his countenance.

And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.

Even like as in time past it hath been well seen, that the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, wherethrough the sea way goeth over Jordan in to the land of Galilee, was at the first in little trouble, but afterward sore vexed.

And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.

{A song of the stairs} Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD; LORD, hear my voice.

Thy rebuke breaketh my heart, and maketh me heavy. I look for some to have pity upon me, but there is no man; and for some to comfort me, but I find none.

In my trouble I will call upon the LORD, and complain unto my God. So he shall hear my voice out of his holy temple, and my complaint shall come before him: it shall enter even into his ears. {TYNDALE: In my tribulation I called to the LORD, and cried to my God. And he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry entered into his ears.}

O tarry thou the LORD's leisure. Be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.

From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is in heaviness. O set me up upon the rock that is higher than I;

for the day is here, the day of the LORD is come: the dark day of the Heathen, the hour is at hand,

Such as labour upon flax and silk, shall come to poverty, and they also that weave fine works.

And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, "Fear not for thou hast borne a son." But she answered not, nor regarded it.

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

Chasten thy son while there is hope; but let not thy soul be moved to slay him.

Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness - and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God - we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

The just delighteth in doing the thing that is right, but the workers of wickedness abhor the same.

There will I give her, her vineyards again; yea, and the valley of Achor also, to show her hope and comfort. Then shall she sing there as in the time of her youth, and like as in the day when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Then thought David in his heart, "I may perish, one day or other, by the hands of Saul. There is no better for me, than to flee into the land of the Philistines; that Saul, of very despair to find me, may cease to seek me anymore in all the coasts of Israel: for so I may escape his hand."

My God, my soul is vexed within me; therefore I remember the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon.

I thought in myself, "I am undone; there is no hope for me in the LORD."

For I chide not ever, and am not wroth without end. But the blasting goeth from me, though I make the breath.

And unto the people of the land, speak thou on this manner: 'Thus sayeth the LORD God to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to the land of Israel: Ye shall eat your bread with sorrow, and drink your water with heaviness. Yea, the land with the fullness thereof shall be laid waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

Camest thou ever into the ground of the sea: or hast thou walked in the low corners of the deep?

Consider my complaint, for I am brought very low. O deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind.

For the great day of the LORD is at hand: it is heard by, and cometh on a pace. Horrible is the tidings of the LORD's day; then shall the giant cry out.