Nave’s Topical Bible
Despondency
34 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Numbers 17:12-13; Deuteronomy 28:65-67; Job 3:1-26; Job 17:13-16; Psalms 31:22; Psalms 77:7-9; Proverbs 13:12; Isaiah 2:19; Jeremiah 2:25; Jeremiah 8:20; Jeremiah 18:12; Lamentations 3:1-21; Lamentations 5:22; Hosea 10:8; Jonah 2:2-4; Micah 7:1-7; Matthew 24:30; Luke 13:27-28; Luke 23:29-30; Revelation 6:14-17; Revelation 9:5-6
See AFFLICTION
See RESIGNATION
See SORROW
See SUFFERING
- INSTANCES OF
- Cain, when God pronounced judgment upon him for the murder of Abel
- Hagar, when cast out of the household of Abraham on account of the jealousy of Sarah
- Moses
- When sent on his mission to the Israelites
- At the Red Sea
- When the people craved for meat
- The Israelites, on account of the cruel oppressions of the Egyptians
- Elijah, when he fled from Jezebel to the wilderness and sat under the juniper tree, and wanted to die
- Jonah after he had preached to the Ninevites
- The sailors with Paul
Job, see the above extracts from the Book of Job
Jeremiah, see the above extracts from the Lamentations of Jeremiah
- COMFORT IN
Bible verses about “Despondency”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Numbers 17:12And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
- Numbers 17:13Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
- Deuteronomy 28:65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
- Deuteronomy 28:66And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
- Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
- Job 3:1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
- Job 3:2And Job spake, and said,
- Job 3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
- Job 3:4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- Job 3:6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
- Job 3:7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
- Job 3:8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
- Job 3:9Let 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:
- Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- Job 3:11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- Job 3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- Job 3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- Job 3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- Job 3:15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
- Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
- Job 3:18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
- Job 3:19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
- Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
- Job 3:21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
- Job 3:22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
- Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
- Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
- Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
- Job 3:26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
- Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- Job 17:14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- Job 17:15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- Psalms 31:22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
- Psalms 77:7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
- Psalms 77:8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- Psalms 77:9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
- Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.