21 Bible Verses about Unrest

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,
and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

I am faint and severely crushed;
I groan because of the anguish of my heart.

For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope
into sheer terror.

He said,
“You will not rejoice anymore,
ravished young woman, daughter of Sidon.
Get up and cross over to Cyprus—
even there you will have no rest!”

But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea,
for it cannot be still,
and its waters churn up mire and muck.

We are closely pursued;
we are tired, and no one offers us rest.

and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark of his name.

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

Can any of you add a cubit to his height by worrying?

I want you to be without concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you.

In those times there was no peace for those who went about their daily activities because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

“There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.

They have not known the path of peace,
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.

Anguish is coming!
They will seek peace, but there will be none.

“Since they have led My people astray saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, for when someone builds a wall they plaster it with whitewash,

For prior to those days neither man nor beast had wages. There was no safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I turned everyone against his neighbor.

and the path of peace they have not known.