Thematic Bible: Despondency


Thematic Bible



My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill 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, where the floods overflow me. Verse ConceptsChaosMarshes

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; Verse ConceptsStriving With GodUnintelligibleness


He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man. A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' read more.
He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.

Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me. Verse ConceptsdoubtersHealthInterestLonelinessSadnessSelf PitySuicideCynicismNever Being BornRegretting BirthBorrowingLending And BorrowingUngodly CursingFighting One AnotherConflictlent

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig. Verse ConceptsGleaningFruitFig treeGrapesLonelinessSummerVintageNot Reaping What You Sow

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course 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, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForAgony, Of BodyGriefSighingI Am SadCauses of failure ingrieving

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?" Verse ConceptsEloquencedoubtersHesitationLipsDoubtShynessTimidityUncircumcised In Heart

Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'" Verse ConceptsdoubtersHesitationMoses, Life OfUnbelief, As Response To GodGod AppearingNot Believing People

Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech


If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me 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 juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not 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

The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."


Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! Verse ConceptsSadnessCrossing Into The Promised LandGod Will Cause DefeatWhy Does God Do This?


It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself 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 juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not 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 shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away. Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsencePessimismDark DaysWithout HopeNavigationNatural DisastersFeeling Lost

Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward. Verse ConceptsFaith, Origins OfDespondency, Examples OfGoing ForwardNot PrayingMoving OnMoving To A New Place

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness." Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Verse ConceptsdiscouragementAnguish, CauseOther Sad PeopleDepression