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Bible Verses About Despair
Find Bible verses about despair — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about despair?
The Bible addresses despair 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
Psalms 43:5
“Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.”
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Psalms 42:6
“My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.”
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Ecclesiastes 2:20
“Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.”
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Psalms 42:5
“Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.”
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Jeremiah 8:20
“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”
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2 Corinthians 4:8
“We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;”
Genesis 21:16
“She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.”
Jeremiah 8:22
“Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”
Job 16:16
“My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.”
Genesis 4:13
“Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.”
Job 17:1
“"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.”
Job 9:21
“I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.”
Job 9:25
“"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,”
Job 3:3
“"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'”
Ecclesiastes 2:17
“So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.”
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