Bible Verses About Despondency

That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?

To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.

If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.

Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.