45 Bible Verses about Despair

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

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

For we do not desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, 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 am distracted.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of Shaddai.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will also deliver us again;

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Moreover 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 fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.

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

In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you, 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; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Do not be afraid; for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer, neither did she regard it.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

And I said, "My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD."

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

and tell the people of the land, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

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

"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than me.

Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

The great day of the LORD is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of the LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.