Bible Verses About Disappointment

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

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

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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.

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?