Despair

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 28:34 OT

  so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.

• Deuteronomy 28:67 OT

  In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

• Revelation 9:6 NT

  In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

• Revelation 16:10 NT

  The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

• Jeremiah 2:25 OT

  “Keep your feet from being bare, 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 18:12 OT

  But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

• Isaiah 8:21 OT

  They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

• Revelation 16:11 NT

  and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

• Revelation 6:16 NT

  They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

• Job 7:6 OT

  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

• Lamentations 3:18 OT

  I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

• 2 Corinthians 4:8 NT

  We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

• 2 Corinthians 4:9 NT

  pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

• Psalms 42:5 OT

  Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

• Psalms 42:11 OT

  Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

• Genesis 4:13 OT

  Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

• Genesis 4:14 OT

  Behold, you have driven me out today 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. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

• 2 Samuel 17:23 OT

  When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

• Matthew 27:5 NT

  He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.