Bible Verses About Despondency

They long for death, but it never comes; they search for it more than for buried treasure;

when at last they find the grave, they are so happy they shout for joy.

[Why give light] to a man who wanders blindly, whom God shuts in on every side?

"My sighing serves in place of my food, and my groans pour out in a torrent;

for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me, what I dreaded has happened to me.

I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; and anguish keeps coming."

"If I hope for Sh'ol to be my house; if I spread my couch in the dark;

if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,'and to worms, 'You are my mother and sister,'

then where is my hope? And that hope of mine, who will see it?

Only those who go down with me to the bars of Sh'ol, when we rest together in the dust."

"Will Adonai reject forever? will he never show his favor again?

Has his grace permanently disappeared? Is his word to all generations done away?

Has God forgotten to be compassionate? Has he in anger withheld his mercy?" (Selah)

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his fury,

He has led me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.

Against me alone he turns his hand again and again, all day.

He has worn away my skin and flesh, he has broken my bones.

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

He has made me live in darkness, like those who are long dead.

He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has weighed me down with chains.

Even when I cry out, pleading for help, he shuts out my prayer.

He has barred my way with blocks of stone, he has made my paths crooked.

He lies in wait for me like a bear, like a lion in hiding.

He has forced me aside and torn me to pieces, leaving me stunned.

He has bent his bow and used me as a target for his arrows.