Bible Verses About Unfulfilled Dreams

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

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

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

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

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.

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

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

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 when Saul enquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

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

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

I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

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

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?

And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

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

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

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

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.

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

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

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.