11 Bible Verses about Hopelessness

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
And the Lord has forgotten me.”

“Keep your feet from being unshod
And your throat from thirst;
But you said, ‘It is hopeless!
No! For I have loved strangers,
And after them I will walk.’

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”