48 Bible Verses about Depression

I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go mourning all day long.

But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face,
But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.

Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to him whose life is bitter.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.

A joyful heart is good medicine,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

“In righteousness you will be established;
You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear;
And from terror, for it will not come near you.

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Surely my soul remembers
And is bowed down within me.

So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,
But a good word makes it glad.

I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”

So it came about whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the harp and play it with his hand; and Saul would be refreshed and be well, and the evil spirit would depart from him.

It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.

for it is written,
‘He will command His angels concerning You to guard You,’

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.

Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him.

but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage.

Even in laughter the heart may be in pain,
And the end of joy may be grief.

Sorrow is better than laughter,
For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the Lord.

He said to Him, “O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

So he shall look at the mark, and if the mark on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface,

And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;

“And now my soul is poured out within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.

I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

“For the Lord has called you,
Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
Says your God.

Rejoice always;

For oppression makes a wise man mad,
And a bribe corrupts the heart.

I shall give them over to the power of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his officers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the Lord.

Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.

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.”

The spirit of a man can endure his sickness,
But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?