Thematic Bible: Despondency


Thematic Bible



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. Verse ConceptsDespondency, Examples OfDepression, Solutions ToHealthI Am SadThe Region Of JordanDepressionDespairwaterfalls

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. Verse ConceptsChaosMarshes

But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, Verse ConceptsStriving With GodUnintelligibleness


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?"

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.

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. Verse ConceptsdoubtersHealthInterestLonelinessSadnessSelf PitySuicideCynicismNever Being BornRegretting BirthBorrowingLending And BorrowingUngodly CursingFighting One AnotherConflictlent

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. Verse ConceptsGleaningFruitFig treeGrapesLonelinessSummerVintageNot Reaping What You Sow

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Verse ConceptsComplaintsHealthBeing BitterResentment, Against GodSelf PitySuicideWeariness Of LifeLife DespisedDeath DesiredComplainingBitternesstiredventing

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForAgony, Of BodyGriefSighingI Am SadCauses of failure ingrieving

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?" Verse ConceptsEloquencedoubtersHesitationLipsDoubtShynessTimidityUncircumcised In Heart

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.'" Verse ConceptsdoubtersHesitationMoses, Life OfUnbelief, As Response To GodGod AppearingNot Believing People

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." Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

But he said, "Oh, my Lord, please send someone else." Verse ConceptsIndecisionAaron, PositionDifferent PersonGod Sending Prophets

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." Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

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." Verse ConceptsDisappointments, Examples OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceJourneyUniversality Of DeathLonelinessPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, Doubts AboutSelf PitySittingTreesComplaintsUnwise PrayersDesire For DeathDimensions Of Other ThingsTemporary Stay In The WildernessDeathDepression

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.

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."

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. Verse ConceptsHealthSadnessUnhappinessWalkingMotionlessnessComing To RestConversationWhat Is The Matter?Other Sad People

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! Verse ConceptsSadnessCrossing Into The Promised LandGod Will Cause DefeatWhy Does God Do This?


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." Verse ConceptsFaintingeastDespondency, Examples OfHeatHopelessnessThe SunWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindCynicismWanting To DieAdvantagesOut Of The EastGod Dispensing WindDesire For DeathHot WeatherGod Appointing OthersLife DespisedrelaxingjonahThe East Wind

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." Verse ConceptsDisappointments, Examples OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceJourneyUniversality Of DeathLonelinessPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, Doubts AboutSelf PitySittingTreesComplaintsUnwise PrayersDesire For DeathDimensions Of Other ThingsTemporary Stay In The WildernessDeathDepression

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. Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsencePessimismDark DaysWithout HopeNavigationNatural DisastersFeeling Lost

The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. Verse ConceptsFaith, Origins OfDespondency, Examples OfGoing ForwardNot PrayingMoving OnMoving To A New Place

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." Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery. Verse ConceptsdiscouragementAnguish, CauseOther Sad PeopleDepression

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