Despondency

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningNumbers 17:12Numbers 17:13Deuteronomy 28:65–67Job 3:1–26Job 17:13–16Psalms 31:22Psalms 77:7–9Proverbs 13:12Isaiah 2:19Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 8:20Jeremiah 18:12Lamentations 3:1–21Lamentations 5:22Hosea 10:8Jonah 2:2–4Micah 7:1–7Matthew 24:30Luke 13:27Luke 13:28
• See Affliction
• See Resignation
• See Sorrow
• See Suffering
• INSTANCES OF
• Cain, when God pronounced judgment upon him for the murder of AbelGenesis 4:13Genesis 4:14
• Hagar, when cast out of the household of Abraham on account of the jealousy of SarahGenesis 21:15Genesis 21:16
• Moses
• When sent on his mission to the IsraelitesExodus 4:1Exodus 4:10Exodus 4:13Exodus 6:12
• At the Red SeaExodus 14:15
• When the people craved for meatNumbers 11:15

The passages, in Bible order (45)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 4:13

   But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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   “My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon. Behold, you cast me out today from your presence, and I shall be hidden from your face and from the face of the earth, and I shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the …

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2. Genesis 4:14

   Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 4:142 voices

   “My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon. Behold, you cast me out today from your presence, and I shall be hidden from your face and from the face of the earth, and I shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the …

   “Therefore, everyone who finds me will kill me. Since from the trembling of the body and the fury of the trembling one, or from the instability of the wanderer and fugitive, he understands him to be one who deserves to be killed. But God, not …

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3. Genesis 21:15

   When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

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   “(Verse 15, 16.) And she put the boy under a tree, and went and sat opposite him, as if shooting an arrow. She said, 'I will not see the death of my child.' And she sat opposite him. And immediately it happened: The boy cried out, and wept, and God heard the voice of the boy from the place where he was. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and so on, let no one move.

   “And the water was spent in the bottle,....

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4. Genesis 21:16

   Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 21:162 voices

   “And she went and sat her down over against him, a good way off,....

   “(Verse 15, 16.) And she put the boy under a tree, and went and sat opposite him, as if shooting an arrow. She said, 'I will not see the death of my child.' And she sat opposite him. And immediately it happened: The boy cried out, and wept, and God heard the voice of the boy from the place where he was. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and so on, let no one move.

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5. Exodus 4:1

   Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”

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   “And Moses answered and said,.... In reference to what Jehovah had declared to him in the latter end of the preceding chapter: but, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken to my voice; this seems to contradict what God had said to him, Exo 3:18 that they would hearken to his voice; but it can hardly be thought, that so good a man, and so great a prophet as Moses was, would directly fly in the face of God, and expressly contradict what he had said.

   “With this chapter begins the series of miracles which resulted in the deliverance of Israel. The first miracle was performed to remove the first obstacle, namely, the reluctance of Moses, conscious of his own weakness, and of the enormous power with which he would have to contend.

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6. Exodus 4:10

   “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”

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   “Moses himself once said: "I am alogos"("wordless"). The Latin version uses a different expression, but we can translate the word alogos exactly as "without words and reason." After he said this, he received reason and speech, which he admitted that he did not have before. When the people of Israel were in Egypt, before they had received the law, they too were without words and reason and thus in a sense mute. Then they received the Word; Moses was the image of it.

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7. Exodus 4:13

   But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 4:131 voice

   “And he said, O my Lord,.... Acknowledging his dominion, his sovereignty, his power to do the above things: or "on me, O Lord" (u), be the blame for making such objections; or on me let this work be devolved, since it is thy pleasure: send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

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8. Exodus 6:9

   Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

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   “And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel,....

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9. Exodus 6:12

   But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”

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   “And Moses spake before the Lord,....

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10. Exodus 14:15

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.

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    “Or do you not hear how Moses, although he said nothing but met the Lord with his inexpressible groanings, was heard by the Lord, who said, "Why do you cry to me?" God knows how to hear even the blood of a just man, to which no tongue is attached and of which no voice pierces the air. The presence of good works is a loud voice before God.

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11. Numbers 11:15

    If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

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    “And if thou deal thus with me,....

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12. Numbers 17:12

    Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

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    “And the children of Israel spake unto Moses,....

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13. Numbers 17:13

    Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

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    “Whosoever cometh anything near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die,....

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14. Deuteronomy 28:65–67

    Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

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    “And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest,.... No quiet settlement, nor certain dwelling, being obliged to move from place to place through cruel edicts, heavy fines and mulcts, exorbitant taxes and impositions, and diligent search made after them by the courts of the inquisition, especially where any substance was to be gotten.

    “No ease - a trembling heart, and failing of eyes - The trembling of heart may refer to their state of continual insecurity, being, under every kind of government, proscribed, and, even under the most mild, uncertain of toleration and protection; and the failing of eyes, to their vain and ever-disappointed expectation of the Messiah.

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15. 1 Kings 19:4

    while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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    “Elijah, whom John the Baptist followed in spirit and virtue and who caused fire to fall from heaven and the waters of the Jordan to part by his prayers, was afraid of Jezebel and fled, and exhausted, he sat down in the wilderness under a tree, and, wearied from walking, he prayed for death, saying, "It is enough for me, Lord, take away my soul, for I am no better than my ancestors." Who can deny that he was a just man?

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16. Job 3:1–26

    After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

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    “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born. That which is here said, He opened his mouth, must not be gone into negligently. For by the things which Holy Scripture premises but slightly, we are apprised that what comes after is to be expected with reverence.

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