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Bible Verses About Depression
In a dark place? These KJV verses speak to despair, heaviness of heart, and the hope that morning always comes.
What does the Bible say about depression?
The Bible addresses depression with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Deuteronomy 25:18
“How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.”
— King James Version
Deuteronomy 28:29
“And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.”
— King James Version
Psalms 69:20
“Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.”
— King James Version
Psalms 88:6
“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.”
— King James Version
Isaiah 40:28
“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.”
— King James Version
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Isaiah 40:30
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:”
Isaiah 40:31
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
Galatians 6:9
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Genesis 1:2
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Genesis 1:4
“And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”
Genesis 1:5
“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
Genesis 1:18
“And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.”
Genesis 6:14
“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
Genesis 12:8
“And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the...”
Genesis 13:12
“Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.”
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