75 Bible Verses about discouragement

Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart? They long for death that does not come. They search for it more than for hidden treasure. They are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave.read more.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged (fenced) in? Sighing comes to me instead of food. My groans pour out like water. What I feared has come upon me. What I dreaded has happened to me. I have no peace. I have no quietness. I have no rest. I only have turmoil!

They moved from Mount Hor following the road that goes to the Red Sea. That way they could go around Edom. The people became impatient on the trip and criticized God and Moses. They said: Why did you make us leave Egypt only to let us die in the desert? There is no bread or water, and we cannot stand this awful food!

Before they laid down to sleep she came up to them on the roof. She said to the men: I know Jehovah has given you the land and the terror of you has fallen on us. All the inhabitants of the land are afraid of you. We heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red sea for you when you came out of Egypt. And what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.read more.
As soon as we heard these things we became discouraged. No man had courage because of you. Jehovah your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.

The Philistine added: I challenge the Israelite battle line today. Send out a man so we can fight each other. Saul and all the Israelites were overcome with fear when they heard what this Philistine said.

See, Jehovah your God give you this land. Possess it, for Jehovah the God of your fathers said to you: Do not fear. Do not be discouraged.'

Have I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.

Affliction does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. A person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, do not correct me or discipline me in your burning anger. Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard. No healthy spot is left on my body because of your rage. There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.read more.
My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear. My wounds smell rotten. They fester because of my stupidity. I am bent over and bowed down very low. All day I walk around in sadness. My insides are filled with burning pain, and no healthy spot is left on my body. I am numb and completely devastated. I roar because my heart is filling with anguish. You know all my desires, O Jehovah. My groaning has not been hidden from you. My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me. My loved ones and my friends keep their distance and my relatives stand far away because of my sickness. Those who seek my life lay traps for me. Those who are out to harm me talk about ruining me. All day long they think of ways to deceive me. But I am like some one deaf and speechless. I am like one who cannot hear and who can offer no arguments.

David told Saul: No one should be discouraged because of this. I will go and fight this Philistine.

He will not break off a bent reed nor extinguish a flickering lamp. He will bring lasting justice to all. He will not lose hope or courage. He will establish justice on the earth. Distant lands eagerly wait for his law.

I also will laugh at your trouble. I will mock when your fear comes. Trouble and distress will surround you like a whirlwind, like a great storm.

In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting; in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,read more.
in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; Also as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

I have seen a vision of cruel events, a vision of betrayal and destruction. Army of Elam, attack! Army of Media, lay siege to the cities! God will put an end to the suffering that Babylon has caused. What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor. My innermost being reels, horror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened or terrified by the king of Assyria or the crowd with him. Someone greater is on our side.

That is why we boast (rejoice) (have glory) about you in the congregations of God. We boast (rejoice) (have glory) about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you experience.

You said: I am so miserable! Jehovah has added grief to my pain. I am worn out from groaning. I cannot find any rest.

Do not lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land. One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year. Rumors of violence are in the land. Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.

When they ask why you are groaning tell this: 'News has come that will discourage everyone. People's hands will hang limp, their hearts will lose courage, and their knees will become as weak as water. It is coming! It will surely take place!' Declares the Lord Jehovah.

He spoke an illustration to them emphasizing the need to pray and not become tired:

Consider him who endured such contrary talk by sinners against him. You should not get tired and give up in your mind (heart).

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie. They have told false dreams! They comfort in vain. They go their way like sheep. They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.

You have endured and are patient. You suffer for my name's sake and have not grown weary.

We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that began in Asia. We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.

Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.

Why am I discouraged? Why am I so restless? I put my hope in God for I will still praise him. He is my salvation and my God. I am very discouraged. That is why I will remember you in the land of Jordan, on the peaks of Hermon, on Mount Mizar. One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.read more.
Jehovah commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I will ask God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me? As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God? Why am I in despair? Why have I become disturbed within me? Wait for God for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.

Samuel said to Saul: Why have you disturbed me? Why did you make me come back? Saul answered: I am in great trouble! The Philistines are at war with me. God has abandoned me. He does not answer me any more by prophets or by dreams. Please tell me what to do. Samuel said: Why do you call me when Jehovah has abandoned you and become your enemy? Jehovah did to you what he told you through me. He took the kingdom away from you and gave it to David instead.read more.
You disobeyed Jehovah's command and did not completely destroy the Amalekites. That is why Jehovah is doing this to you.

So I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations for you, for they are your glory.

The Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us. They imposed hard labor on us. We cried out to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice. He saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.

Distress and anguish fill him with terror. They overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack. He shakes his fist at God and vaunts (brags) (shows off) himself against the Almighty,

Be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist (preacher of the good news), and fulfill your ministry.

I called to Jehovah in my trouble. I called to my God for help. In his temple he heard my voice. He listened to my cry for help.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? It is written: For your sake we are put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter. (Psalm 44:22) In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.read more.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 6:12)

I will bring distress on humans and they will walk like they are blind! They have sinned against Jehovah! Their blood will be poured out like dust and their intestines like manure.

They believed that whenever this land is struck by war, judgement, disease, or famine, your people can pray to you at the Temple. You will hear their prayer and save them.

Be determined and with good courage. Do not be afraid of them. Your God, Jehovah, will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.

Now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be respected, who keeps faith and mercy, do not let his trouble seem small to you. It has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

David also told his son Solomon: Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do no be afraid or terrified. Jehovah God, my God, will be with you. He will not abandon you until all the work on Jehovah's Temple is finished.

Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief. My life is spent from sorrow, my years from groaning. My strength staggers under the weight of my guilt, and my bones waste away. I have become a disgrace because of all my opponents. I have become someone dreaded by my friends, even by my neighbors. Those who see me on the street run away from me.read more.
I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

The anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel. He delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them to their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Wherever they went the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil. For Jehovah had sworn to them and as Jehovah had sworn they were greatly distressed.

Jahaziel said: Pay attention to me, everyone from Judah, everyone living in Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat. This is what Jehovah says to you: 'Do not be frightened or terrified by this large crowd. The battle is not yours. It is God's.

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

Jehovah, they came to you in their distress. When you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.

Jehovah is near to those whose hearts and minds are humble and contrite. He saves the broken hearted and crushed in spirit.

My sorrow is beyond healing, my heart is faint within me! Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not within her? Why have they provoked me with their graven images, with foreign idols?

A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

He gives strength to those who grow tired and increases the strength of those who are weak. Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.

Then Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God from inside the fish's belly. He said: I called to Jehovah because of my affliction. And he answered me! Out of the belly of the grave I cried and you heard my voice.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah has anointed me to announce good news to the lowly and meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.

Moses reported this to the Israelites. But they would not listen to him. For they were so discouraged by their backbreaking work.

Saul's son Ishbosheth heard that Abner had died in Hebron. He lost his courage, and all Israel was alarmed.

The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

The people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and tried to make them afraid to go on building.

Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, proclaims Jehovah. Do not be terrified, Israel. I am going to rescue you from a faraway place. I am going to rescue your descendants from where they are captives. The descendants of Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will frighten them.

I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!

But trouble comes to you, and you are impatient. It touches you, and you panic.

Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. The spirit is broken by sorrow of the heart.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness. So who can tolerate a wounded spirit?

Where can we go up? Our brothers caused us to lose heart. They said: The people are stronger and taller than we are. The cities are large and the walls go up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.'

That might discourage them from entering the land Jehovah has given them.

for he did not remember to be kind. He drove oppressed, needy, and brokenhearted people to their graves.

Therefore it is my decision not to trouble those of the nations who have turned to God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.

Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are.

A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes his reverence for the Almighty.

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken. I mourn and dismay has taken hold of me.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.