Bible Verses About Hopelessness

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

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.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

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.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

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.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

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

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

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

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

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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

Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

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

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.