75 Bible Verses about discouragement

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Job 3:20-26

Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul? Waiting for death, and it is not; and they will dig more than for hidden treasures; Rejoicing with joy when they find the grave;read more.
To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him? For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters. For I feared a fear, and it will come upon me, and what I was afraid of will come to me. I was not secure, and I rested not, and I was not quiet; and trouble will come.

Numbers 21:4-5

And they will remove from mount Hor, the way of the sea of sedge, to encompass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people will be shortened in the way. And the people will speak against God, and against Moses, For what brought ye us up from Egypt to die in the desert? for no bread, and no water; and our soul loathed upon this light bread.

Joshua 2:8-11

And before they will lie down; and she went up to them upon the roof; And she will say to the men, I knew that Jehovah gave to you the land, and that your terror fell upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melted from your face. For we heard that Jehovah dried up the water of the sea of sedge from before you, in your coming out of Egpyt; and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites that were upon the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye destroyed them.read more.
And hearing, our heart will melt and there rose up no more spirit in a man on account of your face: For Jehovah your God, he the God in the heavens from above and upon the earth beneath.

1 Samuel 17:10-11

And he of the rovers will say, I upbraided the ranks of Israel this day; ye shall give to me a man and we will fight together. And Saul will hear and all Israel, these words of him of the rovers, and they will be terrified and greatly afraid.

Deuteronomy 1:21

See, Jehovah thy God gave the land before thee: go up, possess, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers spake to thee; thou shalt not fear and thou shalt not be pressed down.

Job 5:6-7

For toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth; For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly.

Psalm 38:1-14

Chanting of David to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, thou wilt not reprove me in thy wrath, and thou wilt not correct me in thine anger. For thine arrows came down upon me, and thy hand will press down upon me.read more.
No soundness in my flesh from thy wrath; no peace in my bones from the face of my sins. For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me. My stripes became loathsome: they flowed from the face of my folly. I was moved, I was even greatly bowed down: all the day I went darkened. For my loins were filled with inflammation, and no soundness in my flesh. I was languid and crushed even greatly: I roared from the groaning of my heart O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee. My heart moved about rapidly, my strength forsook me, and the light of mine eyes also they not with me. My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off. And they seeking my soul will lay snares: and they seeking my evil spake mischief, and they will meditate deceits all the day, And I, as deaf, shall not hear; and as dumb, he will not open his mouth.

1 Samuel 17:32

And David will say to Saul, man's heart shall not fall on account of him; thy servant will go and fight with this one of the rovers

Isaiah 42:3-4

A broken reed he shall not break, and bedimmed flax shall he not quench it: he shall bring forth judgment to truth. He shall not be weak, and he shall not break, till he shall set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law:

Proverbs 1:26-27

Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror; In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress.

2 Corinthians 6:4-10

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities, In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings; In purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned.read more.
In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left, Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true; As being ignorant, and knowing; as dying, and, behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not killed; As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

Isaiah 21:2-4

A hard vision was announced to me: The spoiler spoiled, and he laying waste, laid waste. Go up, O Elam: press, O Media; all her sighing I caused to cease. For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeing My heart wandered; trembling made me afraid: the evening twilight of my desire he put to me for fear.

2 Chronicles 32:7

Be strong and be firm ye shall not fear and ye shall not be terrified-from the face of the king of Assur, and from before all the multitude which are with him: for with us much more than with him.

Jeremiah 45:3

Thou saidst, Wo to me now! for Jehovah added grief upon my pain; I was weary in my sighing, and I found not rest.

Jeremiah 51:46

And lest your heart shall be faint and ye be afraid for the report being heard in the land; and a report came in a year, and after it in a year a report, and violence in the land, dominion against dominion.

Ezekiel 21:7

And it was when they shall say to thee, For what sighest thou? and say, For the report, because it came: and every heart melted and all hands were relaxed, and every spirit was weak, and all knees shall go into water: behold, it came, and it was, says the Lord Jehovah.

Hebrews 12:3

For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls.

Zechariah 10:2

For the family gods spake vanity, and the diviners saw falsehood, and they will speak dreams of falsehood they will comfort in vain: for this, they removed as a flock, they were afflicted for there was no shepherd.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live: And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise were ashamed, they were confounded, and they will be taken: behold, they rejected in the word of Jehovah; and what wisdom to them?

Psalm 42:5-11

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face. O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.read more.
The day Jehovah will command his mercy, and in the night the song with me; the prayer to the God of my life. I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy? With a breaking of my bones mine enemies reproached me, in their saying all the day, Where their God? Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.

1 Samuel 28:15-18

And Samuel will say to Saul, Why didst thou disturb me to bring me up? And Saul will say, Distress to me greatly: and the rovers warring against me, and God departed from me, and he answered me no more, also by the hand of the prophets, also by dreams: and I will call to thee to make known to me what I shall do. And Samuel will say, Why wilt thou ask of me, and Jehovah departed from thee and he will be thine enemy? And Jehovah will do for him as he spake by my hand, and Jehovah will rend the kingdom from thy hand and give it to thy neighbor, to David.read more.
As thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah, and didst not the anger of his wrath against Amalek, for this, Jehovah did this word to thee this day.

Ephesians 3:13

Wherefore I desire not to lose courage in my pressures for you, which is your glory.

Deuteronomy 26:6-7

And the Egyptians did us evil, and humbled us, and they will distribute to us hard service. And we shall cry to Jehovah the God of our fathers, and Jehovah will hear our voice, and will see our affliction and our labor and our oppression.

Job 15:24-25

Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war. For he stretched forth his hand against God, and he will strengthen himself against the Almighty.

2 Samuel 22:7

In straits to me I will call Jehovah, And to God will I call, And he will hear my voice from his temple, And my cry in his ears.

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter. But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us.read more.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Zephaniah 1:17

And I pressed upon man, and they went as the blind, because they sinned against Jehovah: and their blood was poured out as dust and their bread as dung.

2 Chronicles 20:9

If evil shall come upon us, the sword, judgment, and death and famine, we shall stand before this house and before thee, for thy name is upon this house, and we will cry to thee from our straits, and thou wilt hear, and thou wilt save.

Nehemiah 9:32

And now our God, the great the mighty, and the terrible God, watching the covenant and the mercy, it shall not be little before thee all the distress which found us, to our kings, to our chiefs, to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.

1 Chronicles 28:20

And David will say to Solomon his son, Be strong and be active, and do: thou shalt not fear, and thou shalt not be terrified, for Jehovah God, my God, is with thee; he will not be slack to thee, and he will not forsake thee till the finishing all the works of the service of the house of Jehovah.

Psalm 31:9-12

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly. For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away. From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me.read more.
I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing.

Judges 2:14-15

And the wrath of Jehovah will kindle against Israel, and he will give them into the hand of plunderers, and they will plunder them; and he will sell them into the hand of their enemies from round about, and they will no more be able to stand before the face of their enemies. In all where they will go forth, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah spake and as Jehovah sware to them: and he will press them greatly.

2 Chronicles 20:15

And he will say, Attend all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou, king Jehoshaphat. Thus said Jehovah to you, Ye shall not fear, and ye shall not be terrified from the face of this great multitude; for not to you the battle but to God.

Isaiah 38:14

As the twittering swallow so shall I chirp: I shall murmur as the dove: mine eyes languished for height: O Jehovah, oppression is to me; be surety for me.

Isaiah 26:16

O Jehovah, in straits they looked after thee; they poured out a whispering thy correction to them.

Jeremiah 8:18-19

Because I afflicted not sorrow upon myself, my heart was sick upon me. Behold the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from the land of those being far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? or her king not in her? wherefore did they irritate me with their carved images, with strange vanities?

Isaiah 40:29-31

He gave power to the faint; and to the not strong he will increase strength. And the boys shall be faint and weary, and the young men faltering, shall become feeble And they waiting for Jehovah shall change power; they shall go up on the wing as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall go and not faint.

Jonah 2:1-2

And Jonah will pray to Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish, And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.

Exodus 6:9

And Moses spake thus to the sons of Israel: and they heard not to Moses for shortness of spirit, and from hard work.

2 Samuel 4:1

And Saul's son will hear that Abner died in Hebron, and his hands will be relaxed, and all Israel trembled.

Ezra 4:4

And the people of the land will be slackening the hands of the people of Judah, and terrifying them in building,

Jeremiah 30:10

And thou my servant Jacob shall not fear, says Jehovah, and thou Israel shalt not be dismayed: for behold me saving thee from far off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob turned back and rested, and was quiet, and none making afraid.

Job 4:5

But now it shall come to thee and thou wilt be wearied; it will touch even to thee, and thou wilt tremble.

Deuteronomy 1:28

Whither are we going up? our brethren melted our heart, saying, A people great and high above us; cities great and fortified to the heavens; and also, the sons of the Anakims, we saw there.

Numbers 32:7

And wherefore will ye hinder the heart of the sons of Israel from passing over to the land which Jehovah gave to them?

Psalm 109:16

Because he remembered not to do mercy, and he will pursue the poor and needy man to slay the dejected of heart.

Acts 15:19

Wherefore I judge, not to molest them, from the nations turning back to God:

Job 6:14

To him melting, mercy from his friend; and he will forsake the fear of the Almighty.

Jeremiah 8:21

For the breaking of the daughter of my people was I broken; I was darkened; astonishment took hold of me.

From Thematic Bible


Discouragement » Delay in fulfilment of desires

Discouragement » The difficulty of the task

Nehemiah 4:10

And Judah will say, The strength of the bearer was weak, and the dust much; and we shall not be able to build upon the wall.

Discouragement » The prosperity of the wicked

Psalm 73:2-3

And I, my feet nearly turned aside; my going was almost poured out For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust

Discouragement » The hardness of the way

Numbers 21:4

And they will remove from mount Hor, the way of the sea of sedge, to encompass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people will be shortened in the way.

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Prayer In Discouragement

Psalm 42:5-11

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.

Resisting Discouragement

Ephesians 3:13

Wherefore I desire not to lose courage in my pressures for you, which is your glory.

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