Despondency

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 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.

• 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.”

• Genesis 21:15 OT

  The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.

• Genesis 21:16 OT

  She 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 opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

• Exodus 4:1 OT

  Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’ ”

• Exodus 4:10 OT

  Moses 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 4:13 OT

  Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

• Exodus 6:12 OT

  Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

• Exodus 14:15 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

• Numbers 11:15 OT

  If 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.”

• Exodus 6:9 OT

  Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

• 1 Kings 19:4 OT

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then 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…

• Jonah 4:3 OT

  Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

• Jonah 4:8 OT

  When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

• Acts 27:20 NT

  When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

• Isaiah 35:3 OT

  Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

• Isaiah 35:4 OT

  Tell 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.

• Luke 18:1-8 NT

  He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me…

• Hebrews 12:12 NT

  Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

• Hebrews 12:13 NT

  and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.