13 Bible Verses about Depression, Symptoms

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.