Quotes about Despair
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- Lamentations 3:8
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
- Lamentations 3:11
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:15
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- Lamentations 3:18
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
- Lamentations 3:49
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Lamentations 3:53
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
- Lamentations 3:54
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
- Lamentations 5:15
Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
- Lamentations 5:17
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
- Lamentations 5:20
unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
- Lamentations 5:22
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
- Ezekiel 4:16