Quotes about Despair
I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
- Psalm 38:8
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
- Psalm 38:10
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
- Psalm 38:17
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
- Psalm 40:12
“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”
- Psalm 41:8
O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.
- Psalm 42:6
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Psalm 44:19
For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
- Psalm 44:25
Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
- Psalm 55:5
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Psalm 58:8
I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
- Psalm 69:2
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
- Psalm 69:12