Bible Verses About Loneliness

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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.

I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

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.

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

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

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

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

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

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

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

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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.

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

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.

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

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.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

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

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

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

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.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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.

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.