Thematic Bible: Despondency
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Despondency » David
and my God.My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
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I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
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But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
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By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
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Despondency » Comfort in
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.' read more.
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
Despondency » Jeremiah
Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
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Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
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Despondency » Job
"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
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Despondency » Instances of » moses » When sent on his mission to the israelites
But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?"
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Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, 'The LORD did not appear to you.'"
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But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue."
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But he said, "Oh, my Lord, please send someone else."
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Despondency » moses
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."
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Despondency » Elijah
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
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Despondency » Instances of » Hagar, when cast out of the household of abraham on account of the jealousy of sarah
When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
Despondency » Instances of » Cain, when God pronounced judgment upon him for the murder of abel
Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
Despondency » The disciples
And he said to them, "What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad.
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Despondency » Joshua
And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!
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Despondency » Instances of » Jonah after he had preached to the ninevites
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."
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When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
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Despondency » Instances of » Elijah, when he fled from jezebel to the wilderness and sat under the juniper tree, and wanted to die
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
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Despondency » Instances of » The sailors with paul
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
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Despondency » Instances of » moses » At the red sea
The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.
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Despondency » Instances of » moses » People » Craving
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."
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Despondency » Instances of » The israelites, on account of the cruel oppressions of the egyptians
Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.
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