TOPICAL BIBLE
Despondency
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Genesis 4:13Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.Genesis 4:14Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.”Genesis 21:15The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.Genesis 21:16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.Exodus 4:1Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”Exodus 4:10Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”Exodus 4:13He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”Exodus 6:9Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.Exodus 6:12Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?”Exodus 14:15Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.Numbers 11:15If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”Numbers 17:12The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!Numbers 17:13Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, dies! Will we all perish?”Deuteronomy 28:65Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;Deuteronomy 28:66and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you shall say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you shall say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”Job 3:1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.Job 3:2Job answered:Job 3:3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’Job 3:4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.Job 3:6As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.Job 3:7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.Job 3:8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.Job 3:9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,Job 3:10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.Job 3:11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?Job 3:12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?Job 3:13For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;Job 3:15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:Job 3:16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.Job 3:18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.Job 3:19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.Job 3:20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,Job 3:21Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,Job 3:22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.Job 3:25For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.Job 3:26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’Job 17:15where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?Job 17:16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”Psalm 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.Psalm 77:7“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?Psalm 77:8Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?Psalm 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.Isaiah 2:19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.Isaiah 35:4Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.Jeremiah 2:25“Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’Jeremiah 8:20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.Jeremiah 18:12But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.Lamentations 3:1I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.Lamentations 3:2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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