100 Bible Verses About Despair

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets.

For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: it is a sin offering.

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

In his days Pharaoh–nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.

Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.

Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth–el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: