DESPONDENCY

Passages on this topic · 115

• Genesis 4:13

  Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

• Genesis 4:14

  Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

• Genesis 21:15

  The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

• Genesis 21:16

  She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

• Exodus 4:1

  Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

• Exodus 4:13

  He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

• Exodus 6:9

  Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

• Exodus 6:12

  Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?”

• Exodus 14:15

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

• Numbers 11:15

  If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

• Numbers 17:12

  The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

• Numbers 17:13

  Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”

• Deuteronomy 28:65

  Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

• Deuteronomy 28:66

  Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.

• Deuteronomy 28:67

  In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

• 1 Kings 19:4

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

• Job 3:1

  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

• Job 3:2

  Job answered:

• Job 3:3

  “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

• Job 3:4

  Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

• Job 3:5

  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

• Job 3:6

  As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

• Job 3:7

  Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

• Job 3:8

  Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

• Job 3:9

  Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

• Job 3:10

  because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

• Job 3:11

  “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

• Job 3:12

  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

• Job 3:13

  For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

• Job 3:14

  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

• Job 3:15

  or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

• Job 3:16

  or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

• Job 3:17

  There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

• Job 3:18

  There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

• Job 3:19

  The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

• Job 3:20

  “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

• Job 3:21

  Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

• Job 3:22

  who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

• Job 3:23

  Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

• Job 3:24

  For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

• Job 3:25

  For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

• Job 3:26

  I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”

• Job 17:13

  If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

• Job 17:14

  If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

• Job 17:15

  where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

• Job 17:16

  Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

• Psalms 31:22

  As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

• Psalms 77:7

  “Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

• Psalms 77:8

  Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

• Psalms 77:9

  Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

• Proverbs 13:12

  Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

• Isaiah 2:19

  Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

• Isaiah 35:3

  Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

• Isaiah 35:4

  Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

• Jeremiah 2:25

  “Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

• Jeremiah 8:20

  “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

• Jeremiah 18:12

  But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

• Lamentations 3:1

  I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

• Lamentations 3:2

  He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

• Lamentations 3:3

  Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all day long.

• Lamentations 3:4

  He has made my flesh and my skin old; he has broken my bones.

• Lamentations 3:5

  He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

• Lamentations 3:6

  He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

• Lamentations 3:7

  He has walled me about, that I can’t go out; he has made my chain heavy.

• Lamentations 3:8

  Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

• Lamentations 3:9

  He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

• Lamentations 3:10

  He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

• Lamentations 3:11

  He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

• Lamentations 3:12

  He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

• Lamentations 3:13

  He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

• Lamentations 3:14

  I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

• Lamentations 3:15

  He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.

• Lamentations 3:16

  He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

• Lamentations 3:17

  You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

• Lamentations 3:18

  I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

• Lamentations 3:19

  Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

• Lamentations 3:20

  My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

• Lamentations 3:21

  This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

• Lamentations 5:22

  But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

• Hosea 10:8

  The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”

• Jonah 2:2

  He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

• Jonah 2:3

  For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

• Jonah 2:4

  I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

• Jonah 4:3

  Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

• Jonah 4:8

  When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

• Micah 7:1

  Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

• Micah 7:2

  The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Micah 7:4

  The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

• Micah 7:5

  Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

• Micah 7:6

  For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

• Micah 7:7

  But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

• Matthew 24:30

  and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

• Luke 13:27

  He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

• Luke 13:28

  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

• Luke 18:1

  He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

• Luke 18:2

  saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

• Luke 18:3

  A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

• Luke 18:4

  He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

• Luke 18:5

  yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

• Luke 18:6

  The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

• Luke 18:7

  Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

• Luke 18:8

  I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

• Luke 23:29

  For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

• Luke 23:30

  Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’

• Acts 27:20

  When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

• Hebrews 12:12

  Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

• Hebrews 12:13

  and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

• Revelation 6:14

  The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

• Revelation 6:15

  The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

• Revelation 6:16

  They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

• Revelation 6:17

  for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

• Revelation 9:5

  They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

• Revelation 9:6

  In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.