Bible verses about Despair
Verses for deep despair, where honest lament meets the mercy of God.
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Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Job 3:20so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Job 7:15I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalms 6:6For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 13:1How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
Psalms 13:2For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
Psalms 22:1I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
Psalms 22:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
Psalms 31:9For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
Psalms 31:10Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Psalms 42:5O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.
Psalms 42:6I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
Psalms 130:5The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
Psalms 34:18A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
Psalms 88:1May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
Psalms 88:2For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
Psalms 88:3My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
Psalms 88:9So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
Lamentations 3:18Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:19Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
Lamentations 3:20Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
Lamentations 3:21Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
Lamentations 3:22They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Lamentations 3:23“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
Lamentations 3:24We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
2 Corinthians 1:8