10 Bible Verses about Sitting In Dejection

Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as an unclean thing among them.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet wine, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be you grieved; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him.

Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at you.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

The people who sat in darkness saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up.

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.