100 Bible Verses About Loneliness
Bible verses about Loneliness
Loneliness is a universal human experience, yet the Bible offers profound comfort and guidance for navigating these feelings. Exploring scripture on loneliness reveals that even in moments of isolation, we are never truly alone. God's presence is a constant promise, and understanding these verses allows us to tap into His unwavering love and support. Through scripture, we learn to recognize loneliness not as a sign of abandonment, but as an opportunity to draw closer to God, seek solace in His word, and find strength in the community of believers. These verses offer hope, reminding us of our inherent worth and belonging within God's grand design.
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Psalms 31:7 (KJV)
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
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Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
And Job spake, and said,
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
In examining these verses, a profound truth emerges: loneliness, though a deeply human experience, is never a state where we are truly abandoned by God. From David's cries for deliverance in the Psalms to Jesus' promise of abiding presence, Scripture consistently offers solace and reassurance to the isolated. These verses remind us that vulnerability in our loneliness can be a pathway to deeper connection with the divine. They also encourage us to actively combat isolation through prayer, community, and acts of service towards others. Reflect on these scriptures, allowing them to permeate your understanding of loneliness, not as a final destination, but as an invitation to lean more fully on God's unwavering support and discover the strength and comfort found in His love.