75 Bible Verses about discouragement

Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures, who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?read more.
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in? For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water. For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, neither have I rest, but trouble comes.

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to encompass the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul loathes this light bread.

And before they were laid down, she came up to them upon the roof. And she said to the men, I know that LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us. And that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. For we have heard how LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when ye came out of Egypt, and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.read more.
And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you, for LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together. And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Behold, LORD thy God has set the land before thee. Go up, take possession, as LORD, the God of thy fathers, has spoken to thee. Fear not, neither be dismayed.

Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage. Be not frightened, neither be thou dismayed, for LORD thy God is with thee wherever thou go.

For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground, but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.read more.
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart. LORD, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me. Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off. Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, hear not. And I am as a mute man who opens not his mouth. Yea, I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him. Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench, but he will bring forth justice in truth. He will not fail nor be discouraged till he has set justice in the earth. And {in his name Gentiles will hope (LXX/NT)}.

I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes, when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings, in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love,read more.
in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left, through glory and disrepute, through slander and commendation; as deceitful, and yet true; as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death; as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease. Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see. My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed of the king of Assyria, nor of all the multitude that is with him. For there is a greater with us than with him.

So as for us ourselves to have pride in you in the congregations of God, for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the tribulations that ye endure,

Thou said, Woe is me now! For LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

And let not your heart faint. Neither fear ye for the news that shall be heard in the land. For news shall come one year, and after that in another year, news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak

And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,

For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened.

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and they have told FALSE dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.

And thou have perseverance. And thou endured because of my name, and did not become weary.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive. But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

And let us not be weary doing good, for in our own time we will reap, not desponding.

The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance. O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the noise of thy waterfalls. All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.read more.
[Yet] LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, [even] a prayer to the God of my life. I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God? Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

And Samuel said to Saul, Why have thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am greatly distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, no And Samuel said, Why then do thou ask of me, since LORD departed from thee, and has become thine adversary? And LORD has done to thee, as he spoke by me. And LORD has rent the kingdom out of thy hand, and given it to thy neighbor, even to David.read more.
Because thou obeyed not the voice of LORD, and did not execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore LORD has done this thing to thee this day.

Therefore I ask that ye not become discouraged at my tribulations on your behalf, which is your glory.

And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage. And we cried to LORD, the God of our fathers, and LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.

But be thou sober in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, bring thy ministry to fullness.

In my distress I called upon LORD. Yea, I called to my God. And he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry [came] into his ears.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter. But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.read more.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor heavenly agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against LORD, and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.

If evil comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry out to thee in our affliction, and thou will hear and save.

Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be frightened at them, for LORD thy God, he it is who goes with thee. He will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, an

And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Fear not, nor be dismayed, for LORD God, even my God, is with thee. He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until all the work for the service of the hou

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away. I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.read more.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

And the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them. And he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before th Wherever they went out, the hand of LORD was against them for evil, as LORD had spoken, and as LORD had sworn to them. And they were exceedingly distressed.

And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat. Thus says LORD to you, Fear ye not, neither be dismayed because of this great multitude. For the battle is not yours, but God's.

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

LORD, in trouble they have visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.

LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

Then Jonah prayed to LORD his God out of the sea creatures belly. And he said, I called because of my affliction to LORD, and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, [and] thou heard my voice.

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and

And Moses spoke so to the sons of Israel, but they did not hearken to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

And when [Ish-bosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

The Spirit of Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good-news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliv

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, says LORD, nor be dismayed, O Israel. For, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled.

Nevertheless God, who encourages the lowly, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

And why do ye discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which LORD has given them?

because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to kill.

Therefore I judge not to trouble those from the Gentiles who are turning to God,

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold on me.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep,

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.