Despondency
37 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- At the Red Sea
- Cain, when God Pronounced Judgment Upon Him for the Murder of Abel
- Comfort In
- Elijah, when he Fled from Jezebel to the Wilderness and Sat Under the Juniper Tree
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Hagar, when Cast out of the Household of Abraham on Account of the Jealousy of Sarah
- Jonah After he had Preached to the Ninevites
- The Israelites, on Account of the Cruel Oppressions of the Egyptians
- The Sailors with Paul
- when Sent on his Mission to the Israelites
- when the People Craved for Meat
At the Red Sea
- Exodus 14:15 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
Cain, when God Pronounced Judgment Upon Him for the Murder of Abel
- Genesis 4:13–14 But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. …
Comfort In
- Isaiah 35:3–4 Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees! …
- Luke 18:1–8 Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart: …
- Hebrews 12:12–13 Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees. …
Elijah, when he Fled from Jezebel to the Wilderness and Sat Under the Juniper Tree
- 1 Kings 19:4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
General Scriptures Concerning
- Numbers 17:12–13 Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost! …
- Deuteronomy 28:65–67 Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. …
- Job 3:1–26 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. …
- Job 17:13–16 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, …
- Psalm 31:22 In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
- Psalm 77:7–9 “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again? …
- Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
- Isaiah 2:19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
- Jeremiah 2:25 You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
- Jeremiah 8:20 “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
- Jeremiah 18:12 But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- Lamentations 3:1–21 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. …
- Lamentations 5:22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
- Hosea 10:8 The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
- Jonah 2:2–4 saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. …
- Micah 7:1–7 Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave. …
- Matthew 24:30 At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
- Luke 13:27–28 And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’ …
- Luke 23:29–30 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’ …
- Revelation 6:14–17 The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place. …
- Revelation 9:5–6 The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion. …
Hagar, when Cast out of the Household of Abraham on Account of the Jealousy of Sarah
- Genesis 21:15–16 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes. …
Jonah After he had Preached to the Ninevites
- Jonah 4:3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
The Israelites, on Account of the Cruel Oppressions of the Egyptians
- Exodus 6:9 Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
The Sailors with Paul
- Acts 27:20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
when Sent on his Mission to the Israelites
- Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”
- Exodus 4:10 “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
- Exodus 4:13 But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
- Exodus 6:12 But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
when the People Craved for Meat
- Numbers 11:15 If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now — if I have found favor in Your eyes — and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.