Quotes About Despair

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!

There on the willows we hung our harps,

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,