Quotes about Despair

The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.

I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.