100 Bible Verses About Loneliness

Bible verses about Loneliness

Loneliness is a universal human experience, yet the Bible offers profound comfort and guidance for navigating these feelings. Exploring scripture on loneliness reveals that even in moments of isolation, we are never truly alone. God's presence is a constant promise, and understanding these verses allows us to tap into His unwavering love and support. Through scripture, we learn to recognize loneliness not as a sign of abandonment, but as an opportunity to draw closer to God, seek solace in His word, and find strength in the community of believers. These verses offer hope, reminding us of our inherent worth and belonging within God's grand design.

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Psalms 31:7 (KJV)

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

Finding God's Comfort in Times of Loneliness

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

Psalms 55:1KJV

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

Job 27:15KJV

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Psalms 109:10KJV

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:15KJV

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:21KJV

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Psalms 30:5KJV

If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

1 Samuel 2:25KJV

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

Psalms 69:4KJV

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

Leviticus 26:39KJV

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Psalms 124:4KJV

And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.

1 Kings 19:6KJV

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Deuteronomy 28:56KJV

And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

Isaiah 63:5KJV

And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

Judges 19:28KJV

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

2 Chronicles 16:12KJV

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Psalms 25:18KJV

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalms 57:4KJV

And Job spake, and said,

Job 3:2KJV

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Judges 15:1KJV

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Proverbs 27:20KJV

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

Jeremiah 9:4KJV

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 26:12KJV

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:24KJV

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.

Psalms 119:107KJV

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Psalms 109:16KJV

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

Proverbs 27:19KJV

Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

Judges 10:13KJV

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

Psalms 109:22KJV

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Job 17:2KJV

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Psalms 55:4KJV

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

1 Samuel 1:10KJV

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Psalms 88:15KJV

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

Proverbs 26:24KJV

This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

Leviticus 14:54KJV

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7KJV

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Isaiah 33:12KJV

I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.

Psalms 30:8KJV

And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

1 Samuel 27:12KJV

And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

1 Kings 13:24KJV

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Psalms 6:6KJV

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalms 22:16KJV

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Psalms 38:13KJV

For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

1 Samuel 14:39KJV

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Job 30:13KJV

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Psalms 44:23KJV

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Isaiah 43:2KJV

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.

Psalms 88:8KJV

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

Numbers 30:9KJV

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalms 109:2KJV

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

Isaiah 23:10KJV

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:15KJV

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Isaiah 59:10KJV

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Genesis 21:17KJV

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Proverbs 7:21KJV

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

Isaiah 31:8KJV

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalms 52:5KJV

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 9:3KJV

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

Proverbs 7:19KJV

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Psalms 74:19KJV

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Psalms 35:14KJV

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Isaiah 51:21KJV

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Psalms 38:10KJV

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Proverbs 23:35KJV

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Psalms 53:1KJV

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

Proverbs 25:24KJV

For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Isaiah 66:2KJV

To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

Psalms 106:27KJV

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

Psalms 31:7KJV

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 38:2KJV

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

Isaiah 42:22KJV

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.

Job 11:20KJV

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Isaiah 27:10KJV

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

Job 16:7KJV

Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.

Psalms 38:21KJV

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Job 30:24KJV

Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

2 Samuel 1:1KJV

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalms 38:12KJV

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

Psalms 55:7KJV

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

1 Samuel 1:7KJV

Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Psalms 90:13KJV

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

Job 34:7KJV

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Proverbs 6:12KJV

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

Isaiah 57:13KJV

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Psalms 10:9KJV

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Psalms 88:18KJV

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:16KJV

And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

Deuteronomy 31:18KJV

Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:8KJV

Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

Psalms 141:1KJV

And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Genesis 38:19KJV

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21:15KJV

Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Psalms 119:154KJV

Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

2 Samuel 22:13KJV

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Psalms 69:26KJV

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

Psalms 22:11KJV

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Genesis 43:9KJV

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Psalms 106:39KJV

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 4:22KJV

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Numbers 14:1KJV

Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15:4KJV

In examining these verses, a profound truth emerges: loneliness, though a deeply human experience, is never a state where we are truly abandoned by God. From David's cries for deliverance in the Psalms to Jesus' promise of abiding presence, Scripture consistently offers solace and reassurance to the isolated. These verses remind us that vulnerability in our loneliness can be a pathway to deeper connection with the divine. They also encourage us to actively combat isolation through prayer, community, and acts of service towards others. Reflect on these scriptures, allowing them to permeate your understanding of loneliness, not as a final destination, but as an invitation to lean more fully on God's unwavering support and discover the strength and comfort found in His love.