12 Bible Verses about Despair, Description Of

Why am I discouraged? Why am I so restless? I put my hope in God for I will still praise him. He is my salvation and my God.

This is what Jehovah says: 'A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.'

He said to the young man carrying his weapons: Draw your sword and kill me. That way these godless Philistines will not gloat over me and kill me. But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.

Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed. He saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. He arranged his affairs in order and he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.

They long for death that does not come. They search for it more than for hidden treasure.

Then the few who remain from these wicked people will want to die rather than live where I will scatter them, declares Jehovah of Hosts.

Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.

Men will seek death in those days and will not find it. They will desire to die and death will elude them.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

Countless evils have surrounded me. My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see. They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost heart (lost strength, courage and motivation).

That is why justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light and we walk in darkness. We hope for brightness but we walk in gloom.

The sun and stars did not appear for many days. No small tempest pressed upon us. All hope of our being saved was taken away.