Bible Verses About Emotional Distress

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

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.

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

Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

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.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.