48 Bible Verses about Depression

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Nevertheless God, who comforts those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Therefore the king said unto me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid,

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Heaviness in the heart of man makes him stoop: but a good word makes him glad.

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

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you:

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very distressed.

But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

You, who have showed me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses because of anguish of spirit, and of cruel bondage.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is grief.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

And the LORD said unto Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your countenance fallen?

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

And he shall look on the disease, and, behold, if the disease is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in sight are deep in the wall;

Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not your peace:

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.

Rejoice evermore.

Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a bribe destroys the heart.

And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

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 away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?