Bible Verses of Depression

I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”

Ruth 1:21

“Don`t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

Ruth 1:20

would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord`s hand has turned against me!”

Ruth 1:13

During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

Revelation 9:6

So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.

Psalms 143:4

Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.

Psalms 142:4

I pour out before him my complaint; before him I tell my trouble.

Psalms 142:2

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Psalms 109:25

My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

Psalms 109:24

I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalms 109:23

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Psalms 109:22

So I said: “Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.

Psalms 102:24

In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days.

Psalms 102:23

My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalms 102:11

because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.

Psalms 102:10

For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears

Psalms 102:9

All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.

Psalms 102:8

I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.

Psalms 102:7

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

Psalms 102:6

In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.

Psalms 102:5

My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

Psalms 102:4

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalms 102:3

All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.

Psalms 88:17

Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.

Psalms 88:16

From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.

Psalms 88:15

Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?

Psalms 88:14

Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

Psalms 88:12

Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction?

Psalms 88:11

Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you?

Psalms 88:10

Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.

Psalms 88:7

You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Psalms 88:6

I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.

Psalms 88:5

I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.

Psalms 88:4

I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.

Psalms 88:3

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

Psalms 73:22

When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,

Psalms 73:21

When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply

Psalms 73:16

If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed your children.

Psalms 73:15

All day long I have been afflicted, and every morning brings new punishments.

Psalms 73:14

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence.

Psalms 73:13

But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold.

Psalms 73:2

They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.

Psalms 69:21

Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.

Psalms 69:20

You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed; all my enemies are before you.

Psalms 69:19

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

Psalms 69:12

I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Psalms 69:3

We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

Psalms 44:25

Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?

Psalms 44:24

But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.

Psalms 44:19

at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.

Psalms 44:16

I live in disgrace all day long, and my face is covered with shame

Psalms 44:15

You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

Psalms 44:14

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.

Psalms 44:13

You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.

Psalms 44:12

You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.

Psalms 44:11

You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.

Psalms 44:10

But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.

Psalms 44:9

You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?

Psalms 43:2

My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 42:10

I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”

Psalms 42:9

My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.

Psalms 42:6

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 42:3

“A vile disease has afflicted him; he will never get up from the place where he lies.”

Psalms 41:8

My enemies say of me in malice, “When will he die and his name perish?”

Psalms 41:5

I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.

Psalms 31:12

Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors and an object of dread to my closest friends— those who see me on the street flee from me.

Psalms 31:11

My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.

Psalms 31:10

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.

Psalms 31:9

Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish.

Psalms 25:17

They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.

Psalms 22:18

All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.

Psalms 22:17

Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet.

Psalms 22:16

My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

Psalms 22:15

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.

Psalms 22:14

All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.

Psalms 22:7

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.

Psalms 22:6

My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.

Psalms 22:2

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

Psalms 22:1

My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

Psalms 6:7

I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Psalms 6:6

“They hit me,” you will say, “but I`m not hurt! They beat me, but I don`t feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”

Proverbs 23:35

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging.

Proverbs 23:34

Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

Proverbs 23:33

In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

Proverbs 23:32

Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!

Proverbs 23:31

Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.

Proverbs 23:30

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Proverbs 23:29

The sluggard says, “There`s a lion outside! I`ll be killed in the public square!”

Proverbs 22:13

The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 18:14

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22

Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.

Nehemiah 5:1

a man`s enemies will be the members of his own household.`

Matthew 10:36

For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—

Matthew 10:35

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 10:21

But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.

Luke 1:7

What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.

Lamentations 3:51

My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,

Lamentations 3:49

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

Lamentations 3:48

Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:2

When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah`s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8