13 Bible Verses about Depression, Symptoms

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and do not let me see my wretchedness."

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Do not let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove. Then I would fly away, and be at rest. Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah. "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.