45 Bible Verses about Despair

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

I had fainted , unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.

so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

To him that is ready to faint kindness'should be showed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.

Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.

From the end of the earth will I call 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 Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast brought forth a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; nd set not thy heart on his destruction.

For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer 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, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and despoiled of all that is therein, because of the violence of all them 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 in the recesses of the deep?

Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly.