48 Bible Verses about Depression

My stripes became loathsome: they flowed from the face of my folly.

But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;

A heart of joy will do the face good: and by pains of heart the spirit was dejected.

Ye shall give strong drink to him perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul

O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness

For in abundance of wisdom, abundance of trouble: and he adding knowledge will increase pain.

A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.

In justice shalt thou be prepared: go far off from violence; for thou shalt not be afraid: and from terror, for it shall not draw near to thee.

Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.

Remembering, my soul will remember, and will be bowed down upon me.

And the king will say to me, Wherefore thy face sad, and thou not being, sick? This nothing but sadness of heart. And I shall be very greatly afraid.

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face, and my God.

Fear in the heart of a man will bow it down: and a good word will gladden it

And I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much tremor, was with you.

And he will see and arise, and go for his soul, and he will come to the Well of the Oath which was to Judah, and he will leave his boy there.

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.

And he will lie down and sleep udder one broom-tree, and behold, then a messenger touched upon him, and he will say to him, Arise, eat

And it was in the spirit of God being upon Saul, and David took the harp and played with his hand, and it was refreshed to Saul, and it was good to him, and the evil spirit departed from him.

And it will be when Ahab heard these words, and he will rend his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and he will fast and lie down in sackcloth, and go softly.

For it has been written, That he shall charge his messengers concerning thee, to watch over thee:

And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved, and to be dejected.

And the spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah terrified him.

And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall.

Who didst cause us to see great straits and evils; thou wilt turn back, thou wilt preserve us alive, and from the depths of the earth thou wilt turn back, thou wilt bring us up.

And Moses spake thus to the sons of Israel: and they heard not to Moses for shortness of spirit, and from hard work.

Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.

Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good.

And Jehovah will say to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why does thy countenance fall?

And she will say to them, Ye shall not call to me Naomi; call to me, Mara: for the Almighty made bitter to me greatly.

They shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for joy in the majesty of Jehovah they cried aloud from the sea.

And he will say to him, With leave, my Lord, by what shall I save Israel? behold, my thousand destitute in Manasseh, and I the least in my father's house.

And he saw the stroke; and behold, the stroke in the walls of the house, the hollows greenish, or reddish and their sight low from the wall.

And the Lord said through a vision by night to Paul, Fear not, but speak, and thou shouldest not be silent:

And now my soul shall be poured out upon me; and the days of affliction will hold me fast

Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

As a wife forsaken and grieved of spirit Jehovah called thee, and a wife of youth; for thou shalt be rejected, said thy God.

Rejoice always.

For oppression will make foolish the wise one; and a gift will destroy the heart.

And I gave them into the hand of those seeking their souls, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and into the hand of his servants: and after this she shall be inhabited as the days of old, says Jehovah.

And there will gather to him every man being pressed and every man which to him a creditor, and every man bitter of soul; and he will be for chief over them: and there will be with him about four hundred men.

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

The spirit of man will sustain his disease; and a dejected spirit who shall lift up?