45 Bible Verses about Despair

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are unsure of our lives, but not in despair;

He brought me up also out of the pit of hopelessness, out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and straightened my steps.

Because, brothers, we would not have you ignore our tribulation which was done unto us in Asia, that we were burdened beyond our strength, in such a manner that we despaired even of life:

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost?

I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.

Therefore my heart began to despair again regarding all the labour which I took under the sun.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

I am afflicted and destitute; from my youth up I have feared thee and been in awe of thee.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.

For I did not take it upon myself to be a pastor following thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou dost know: that which came out of my lips has come forth in thy presence.

He that is afflicted deserves mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.

to order in Zion those that mourn, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted against me? Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him for the wellbeing of his presence.

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.

Nevertheless this darkness shall not be the same as the affliction that came upon her when they lightly touched the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor afterward when they more grievously afflicted her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles.

If it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Out of the depths I cry unto thee, O LORD.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to take pity, but there was no one, and for comforters, but I found none.

In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried unto my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Wait for the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, for the LORD.

From the end of the earth I will cry unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the Gentiles.

Moreover those that work in fine flax and those that weave networks shall be confounded.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not, for thou hast given birth to a son. But she did not answer, neither did she regard it.

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, but do not stir up thy soul to destroy him.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly towards you.

It is joy to the just to do judgment, but it shall be destruction to the workers of iniquity.

And I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

And David said in his heart, In the end I shall be killed some day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape once and for all into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more within the borders of Israel; so shall I escape out of his hand.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the mountain of Mizar.

Vau And I said, My strength and my hope of the LORD is perished.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for by me is the spirit covered by the body, and I have made the souls.

and say unto the people of the land, Thus hath the Lord GOD said regarding the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel. They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with terror that her land may be desolate from all that is in it because of the violence of all those that dwell therein.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked searching out the deep?

Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Neither shalt thou find rest among these Gentiles, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; but there the LORD shall give thee a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of soul;

The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, the bitter voice of the day of the LORD; the mighty man shall cry there.