10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We waited for peace, but no good came. We waited for a time of healing, but all we got was terror!

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

Expectation deferred makes the heart sick. When the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.

Jehovah also said: Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.

When I expected good evil came. When I waited for light darkness came.

Why do I suffer constant pain? Why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?

In spite of everything that had happened, Job did not sin by blaming God.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly. He was angry! He prayed to Jehovah: I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity (tragedy) (catastrophe) (disaster). Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.