Thematic Bible: Despair
Thematic Bible
Despair » General references to
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.
So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage.
And come to an end
And so has my
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’
Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
And dig for it more than for
Death rather than my
And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them,” declares the Lord of hosts.
Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.
(Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.
When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.
Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
And your throat from thirst;
But you said, ‘
No! For I have
And after them I will walk.’
But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
And come to an end
And so has my
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
And why have you become disturbed within me?
The
And why have you become
For the
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear! "Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
and they *said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.