45 Bible Verses about Despair
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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 goings.
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:
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
So that on the other hand, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor 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 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 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 pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which was uttered by my lips was right before thee.
To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; but he 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 health of my countenance, and my God.
To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty 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 the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us:
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment.
Nevertheless the dimness 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 grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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 the LORD, and cried to 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 will strengthen thy heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
From the end of the earth will I cry to 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 heathen.
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave net-works shall be confounded.
And about the time of her death, the women that stood by her said to her, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy 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 had our manner of life in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be 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 sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came from 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 will despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel; so shall I escape from his hand.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
And say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with solicitude, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Attend to 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, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
From Thematic Bible
Despair » General references to
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they hearkened not to Moses, by reason of anguish of spirit, and cruel bondage.
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
And if thou dealest thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died. and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Then said Saul to his armor-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it; lest these uncircumcised should come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was exceedingly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see.
In the morning thou shalt say, O that it were evening, and at evening thou shalt say, O that it were morning! for the fear of thy heart with which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see.
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
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 health of my countenance, and my God.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it will come to pass, that every one that findeth me will slay me.
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died. and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Psalm 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Despair, Remedies For
Psalm 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
