Bible Verses About Despondency

He has pierced my vital organs with shafts from his quiver.

I'm a laughingstock to all my people, the butt of their taunts all day long.

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

He has broken my teeth with gravel and pressed me down into ashes.

I have been so deprived of peace, I have so forgotten what happiness is,

that I think, "My strength is gone, and so is my hope in ADONAI."

Remember my utter misery, the wormwood and the gall.

They are always on my mind; this is why I am so depressed.

But in my mind I keep returning to something, something that gives me hope -

he said, "Out of my distress I called to ADONAI, and he answered me; from the belly of Sh'ol I cried, and you heard my voice.

For you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the flood enveloped me; all your surging waves passed over me.

I thought, 'I have been banished from your sight.' But I will again look at your holy temple.

Woe to me! for I have become like the leavings of summer fruit, like the gleanings when the vintage is finished - there isn't a cluster worth eating, no early-ripened fig that appeals to me.

The godly have been destroyed from the land, there is no one upright among humankind. They all lie in wait for blood, each hunts his brother with a net.

Their hands do evil well. The prince makes his request, the judge grants it for a price, and the great man expresses his evil desires - thus they weave it together.

The best of them is a briar, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The time of your watchmen - of your punishment - has come; now they will be confused.

Don't trust in your neighbor; don't put confidence in a close friend; shut the gates of your mouth even from [your wife], lying there with you in bed.

For a son insults his father, a daughter rises against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - a person's enemies are the members of his own household.

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

and he will tell you, ‘I don’t know where you’re from. Get away from me, all you workers of wickedness!’

You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Avraham, Yitz’chak, Ya‘akov and all the prophets inside the Kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside.

For the time is coming when people will say, ‘The childless women are the lucky ones — those whose wombs have never borne a child, whose breasts have never nursed a baby!

Then They will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

Then the earth’s kings, the rulers, the generals, the rich and the mighty — indeed, everyone, slave and free — hid himself in caves and among the rocks in the mountains,