10 Bible Verses about Sitting In Dejection

Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded against Jacob, [that] those surrounding him [should be] his enemies; Jerusalem has become a defilement among them.

Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge."

Come down and sit on [the] dust, virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Chaldea! For {they shall no longer call} you tender and delicate.

And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.

Let him sit alone and be silent when he has laid it on him.

And all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, and they will remove their robes, and their {beautiful garments} [of] finished cloth they will take off. With terror they will be clothed, and on the ground they will sit, and they will tremble {continually}, and they will be appalled over you.

They sit on the ground, the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent. They cast dust on their head, they have put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their head down to the ground.

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them."

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace."

Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.