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Bible Verses About Despair

This noindex topical Bible draft for Despair was seeded from the public-domain reference inventory in Torrey's New Topical Textbook. It stores Scripture references and source provenance only, not copied competitor commentary or modern editorial text.

Before publishing, an editor should verify the passage set against THF Bible tools, choose the clearest anchor passages, remove weak or duplicate references, add early Christian evidence where available, and connect the page to relevant lessons, courses, videos, Strong's data, interlinear study, and cross-reference tools. The source inventory included 10 topic entries and produced 18 parsed verse references for review.

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18 references

Supporting Passages

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

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In 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.

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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

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And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

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And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

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And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

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And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

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And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

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We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

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And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

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And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

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And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

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