Bible Verses About Loneliness
This collection includes 29 passages about Loneliness. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Reading context: The speaker asks for mercy while describing desolation, affliction and trouble. This is a prayer from need, not a demand to hide distress.
Scripture Passages
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Reading context: This prayer describes trouble, the absence of human refuge and an appeal to the Lord. Its final hope for company belongs with the distress voiced earlier; do not erase either part.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Reading context: Paul recalls being deserted at his first defence, asks that it not be held against those absent, and describes the Lord standing with him. This is his testimony in a specific setting.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Reading context: The speaker asks for mercy while describing desolation, affliction and trouble. This is a prayer from need, not a demand to hide distress.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Reading context: The speaker asks for mercy while describing desolation, affliction and trouble. This is a prayer from need, not a demand to hide distress.
I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication.
Reading context: This prayer describes trouble, the absence of human refuge and an appeal to the Lord. Its final hope for company belongs with the distress voiced earlier; do not erase either part.
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Reading context: This prayer describes trouble, the absence of human refuge and an appeal to the Lord. Its final hope for company belongs with the distress voiced earlier; do not erase either part.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Reading context: This prayer describes trouble, the absence of human refuge and an appeal to the Lord. Its final hope for company belongs with the distress voiced earlier; do not erase either part.
I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Reading context: This prayer describes trouble, the absence of human refuge and an appeal to the Lord. Its final hope for company belongs with the distress voiced earlier; do not erase either part.
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Reading context: This prayer describes trouble, the absence of human refuge and an appeal to the Lord. Its final hope for company belongs with the distress voiced earlier; do not erase either part.
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Reading context: This prayer describes trouble, the absence of human refuge and an appeal to the Lord. Its final hope for company belongs with the distress voiced earlier; do not erase either part.
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
Reading context: Paul recalls being deserted at his first defence, asks that it not be held against those absent, and describes the Lord standing with him. This is his testimony in a specific setting.
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Reading context: Jesus speaks to his disciples about their coming scattering and his Father’s presence, then names trouble and peace. These words belong to that farewell setting.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Reading context: Jesus speaks to his disciples about their coming scattering and his Father’s presence, then names trouble and peace. These words belong to that farewell setting.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Reading context: The promise of presence concludes Jesus’ commission to his disciples. Keep it attached to that commission rather than treating the quotation as an unrelated slogan.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Reading context: The promise of presence concludes Jesus’ commission to his disciples. Keep it attached to that commission rather than treating the quotation as an unrelated slogan.
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Reading context: The promise of presence concludes Jesus’ commission to his disciples. Keep it attached to that commission rather than treating the quotation as an unrelated slogan.
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Reading context: The assurance of presence appears in a call to freedom from covetousness and contentment. Preserve that setting while reflecting on the words.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Reading context: The assurance of presence appears in a call to freedom from covetousness and contentment. Preserve that setting while reflecting on the words.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Reading context: The reflection describes companions helping with work, a fall, warmth and resistance. It commends practical mutual help without saying every reader must marry.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Reading context: The reflection describes companions helping with work, a fall, warmth and resistance. It commends practical mutual help without saying every reader must marry.
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
Reading context: The reflection describes companions helping with work, a fall, warmth and resistance. It commends practical mutual help without saying every reader must marry.
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Reading context: The reflection describes companions helping with work, a fall, warmth and resistance. It commends practical mutual help without saying every reader must marry.
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Reading context: Paul describes many members belonging within one body in Christ. This is a community image, not an instruction to ignore someone’s isolation.
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Reading context: Paul describes many members belonging within one body in Christ. This is a community image, not an instruction to ignore someone’s isolation.
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
Reading context: The body image calls members to care for one another and share suffering and honour. The responsibility is mutual, rather than placed only on the isolated person.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Reading context: The body image calls members to care for one another and share suffering and honour. The responsibility is mutual, rather than placed only on the isolated person.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Reading context: The song names care for the fatherless, widows and the solitary, and contrasts this with rebellion. Read these lines within the whole song, not as a guarantee of an immediate household.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Reading context: The song names care for the fatherless, widows and the solitary, and contrasts this with rebellion. Read these lines within the whole song, not as a guarantee of an immediate household.
Reference selection. Read each chapter for context. About
These passages include prayers from distress, accounts of being left alone, and instructions about companionship and shared care. They allow the reader to notice the speaker’s particular situation without turning isolation into a virtue or a failure. The psalms voice need; Paul recalls a deserted defence; Ecclesiastes describes practical help between companions. Scripture can be read alongside real relationships and support, with no promise that loneliness ends immediately.
Read the different settings
A starting collection about felt abandonment, presence and practical companionship. Chosen solitude for prayer is a different task. The passages are not a diagnosis or a promise that every lonely circumstance will quickly change.
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Study Guide
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this collection help me read?
Find words for feeling forsaken and read passages about presence, companionship and shared care. It contains 29 passages in KJV, selected as a starting point rather than an exhaustive topical count.
How were the passages selected?
A starting collection about felt abandonment, presence and practical companionship. Chosen solitude for prayer is a different task. The passages are not a diagnosis or a promise that every lonely circumstance will quickly change. Selection and reading notes are machine-assisted; independent human editorial review is pending.
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