45 Bible Verses about Despair

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life:

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

Do you intend to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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

So that instead you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

Therefore I gave my heart up to despair of all the labor in which I toiled 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 ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.

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.

As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.

To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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.

To provide for them that mourn in Zion, 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 are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope 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 cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

Nevertheless the gloom shall not be such as was in her distress, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more heavily oppress her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

If the scourge slays suddenly, he will laugh at the plight of the innocent.

[A song of ascents.] Out of the depths have I cried unto you, O LORD.

Reproach has 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 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 on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto you, 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 for the nations.

Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave fine linen, shall lose hope.

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

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

It is joy to the just to do justice: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

And I will give her 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, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

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.

And I said, My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD:

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

And say unto the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dismay, that their land may be emptied from all who are in it, because of the violence of all them that dwell in it.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in search of the depths?

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 shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens quickly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: there the mighty man shall cry out bitterly.