45 Bible Verses about Despair

We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord's favor in the land of the living?

so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken.

"To the one in despair, kindness should come from his friend even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

to strengthen those who mourn in Zion, by giving them a turban, instead of ashes, oil symbolizing joy, instead of mourning, a garment symbolizing praise, instead of discouragement. They will be called oaks of righteousness, trees planted by the Lord to reveal his splendor.

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious. In earlier times he humiliated the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali; but now he brings honor to the way of the sea, the region beyond the Jordan, and Galilee of the nations.

If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

A song of ascents. From the deep water I cry out to you, O Lord.

Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried out to my God. From his heavenly temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help.

Rely on the Lord! Be strong and confident! Rely on the Lord!

From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed; those who weave will turn pale.

As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, "Don't be afraid! You have given birth to a son!" But she did not reply or pay any attention.

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil.

From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the "Valley of Trouble" into an "Opportunity for Hope." There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt.

David thought to himself, "One of these days I'm going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand."

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord."

For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man's spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.

Then say to the people of the land, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.

I rashly declared, "All men are liars."

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

Listen to my cry for help, for I am in serious trouble! Rescue me from those who chase me, for they are stronger than I am.

Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

The Lord's great day of judgment is almost here; it is approaching very rapidly! There will be a bitter sound on the Lord's day of judgment; at that time warriors will cry out in battle.