36 Bible Verses About Loss of Hope

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

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

And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

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

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

And she named the child I–chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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

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

And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.

And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.

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.

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.