12 Bible Verses about Despair, Description Of

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and moan within me? Hope in God; for I shall praise Him for the salvation of His face.

So says Jehovah: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons; she refuses to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.

And Saul said to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised ones come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not, for he was very much afraid. So Saul took a sword and fell on it.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, even he saddled the ass and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order. And he hanged himself and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

who is waiting for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for treasures?

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Jehovah of Hosts.

And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are ended without hope.

For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

And neither sun nor stars appearing in many days, and no small tempest pressing hard, now all hope that we would be saved was taken away.