Quotes About Despair

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

If only I had a travelerís lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ëHow devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.í”

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëI am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.

I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.

My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.

And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.í”

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.

But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

But they will reply, ëIt is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.í”

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?