Bible Verses About Depression

"And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand."

"Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun."

"As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart."

"Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."

"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;"

"For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah."

"For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me."

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

"For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers."

"And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy."

"And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy."

"But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun."