52 Bible Verses About Times of Despair

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.

If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

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.

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

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

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.

And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

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

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.