Quotes About Despair

Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

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.

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?

Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one anotherís flesh.”

So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.

Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

While He was still speaking, messengers from the house of Jairus arrived and said, “Your daughter is dead; why bother the Teacher anymore?”

But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

Going a little farther, He fell to the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour would pass from Him.

At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

While He was still speaking, someone arrived from the house of the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he told Jairus. “Do not bother the Teacher anymore.”

(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?