If you are in a genuinely heavy season right now, these verses are meant to be read slowly and prayed honestly, alongside any other support you may need.
Every verse below is drawn from a verified King James Version text.
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psalms 37:14
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
Psalms 37:24
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecclesiastes 3:4
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Psalms 30:11
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
1 Peter 1:6
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Psalms 55:2
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Luke 7:32
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalms 42:5
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 42:6
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 42:9
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 42:11
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job 2:11
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Psalms 119:28
And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
Mark 16:10
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luke 6:25
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 10:1
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms 35:14
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Psalms 88:9
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 37:34
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 37:35
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
Psalm 42:11 is worth reading slowly, naming the low state honestly rather than rushing past it.
It is worth returning to Bible Verses For Depression for exactly this reason.
If this speaks to your current situation, you may also want to read Bible Verses About Overcoming Depression or Bible Verses About Protection, both of which touch on related ground.
Every verse on this page is drawn from the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible for anyone who wants to study the wider context.
It is a thread that runs through Bible Verses For Depression more than once.
Sharing a specific verse from Bible Verses For Depression with someone going through a similar season is one of the simplest ways this collection has been used by other readers.
Returning to Bible Verses For Depression on a regular basis, rather than only once, often reveals something new, since the same words can land differently depending on your circumstances.
Reading Bible Verses For Depression aloud, rather than silently, is a practice some readers find helps the words settle more deeply, especially during a difficult week.
If you lead a small group or Bible study, Bible Verses For Depression can serve as a starting point for discussion, since each verse invites a natural follow-up question about how it applies practically.
Praying through Bible Verses For Depression slowly, pausing after each verse, is a different practice than simply reading them, and many readers find it changes how the words are received.
Many readers find it helpful to read through Bible Verses For Depression slowly, one verse at a time, rather than all at once, allowing each to settle before moving to the next.
For related reading, you may also find Bible Verses About Love and Bible Verses For Business helpful.
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If you are exploring related themes, Bible Verses For Faith and Hope and Bible Verses For Loving Others are worth a look.
It can help to resist the urge to read through all twenty verses in Bible Verses For Depression in one sitting. Scripture written centuries apart, in different circumstances, by different authors, tends to reward slower reading. Try picking just two or three verses at a time, reading each one twice, and sitting with it for a moment before moving on. You may notice a detail on the second reading that you missed on the first.
Every verse gathered in Bible Verses For Depression was originally written as part of a larger passage, letter, or narrative. Reading a single verse on its own is genuinely useful, but if one particular verse stands out to you, it is worth taking a few extra minutes to read the surrounding chapter. Context rarely changes what a verse means, but it often deepens it.
Some readers use Bible Verses For Depression purely as a reference, scanning for a specific verse. Others treat it as a starting point for prayer, reading one verse and then praying it back to God in their own words. Neither approach is more correct than the other; what matters is that the verse actually gets read, not just located.
Bookmark this page if Bible Verses For Depression speaks to something you are currently facing. Verses that do not mean much to you today may become exactly what you need on a harder day next month. Scripture tends to work this way — the same words landing differently depending on where you are when you read them.
Consider reading through Bible Verses For Depression with a friend, spouse, or small group rather than only alone. Discussing which verse stood out to each person, and why, often surfaces angles you would not have noticed reading by yourself. Scripture read in community has a long history for exactly this reason.
Every verse in Bible Verses For Depression is drawn from the King James Version specifically, a translation completed in 1611 that remains one of the most widely quoted English versions of Scripture. Its language is more formal than modern translations, which some readers find adds a certain weight to familiar passages.
The twenty verses in Bible Verses For Depression were selected specifically because they speak directly to this subject, rather than only mentioning it in passing. Some are well known; others are easy to overlook on a first read through Scripture. Both kinds are included here because familiarity is not the same as relevance — a lesser-known verse can sometimes say exactly what a well-known one does not.
There is no required order for working through Bible Verses For Depression. Some readers start at the top and read straight through; others scroll until one verse catches their attention and start there instead. Both approaches work equally well, since each verse stands on its own even outside the sequence it is presented in.
Not every verse in Bible Verses For Depression will land the same way on a first read. Scripture written thousands of years ago, in a very different culture, occasionally uses language or imagery that takes a moment to connect with a modern situation. If a particular verse feels unclear, reading it again after a day or two, or alongside a study Bible’s footnotes, often helps.
If you read Bible Verses For Depression in a physical Bible rather than only on this page, consider marking the verses that stand out with a pencil, highlighter, or a note in a Bible app. Building a personal record of which verses have mattered to you, and when, turns a one-time reading into something you can return to years later.
If you found Bible Verses For Depression through a search for something specific, it is worth bookmarking this page rather than relying on finding it again the same way. Search results change, but a saved page stays put, and Scripture on this particular subject tends to be needed more than once, not only in the moment you first went looking for it.
If Bible Verses For Depression has been useful to you, consider passing the link along to someone else who might need it. Many readers first find a specific verse collection like this one because someone shared it with them directly, rather than through a search engine, and that simple act of sharing is often what makes a page like this genuinely useful rather than just accurate.
Scripture collections like Bible Verses For Depression work best as a returning place, not a one-time stop. The verses here will still be accurate and still be relevant the next time you need them, whether that is tomorrow or a year from now, which is precisely the point of gathering them together in one place rather than leaving you to search for each one individually.
Search engines and browser history are not always reliable ways to find a page again later. If Bible Verses For Depression has been useful today, it may be worth saving the link directly, since the same collection tends to be useful again in a future season you cannot predict right now.
A handful of verses in Bible Verses For Depression tend to stand out more than the rest on repeated reading, though which ones stand out often differs from person to person. There is no wrong choice here — the verse that matters most is usually the one that speaks directly to whatever you are carrying at the time you read it.
Twenty verses is enough to give a genuine sense of how often Scripture returns to this subject, without becoming so long that no single verse gets the attention it deserves. Shorter lists risk missing important passages; much longer ones risk turning into a list nobody actually reads all the way through.
If this is the first time you have looked specifically for Bible Verses For Depression, welcome. You do not need any particular background or prior Bible knowledge to read what is here — each verse is presented with its reference so you can look up more context whenever you want it.
Readers exploring this topic may also value Bible Verses For Loneliness or Bible Verses About Loneliness.
If you want to compare these verses across other translations, Bible Gateway offers a free side-by-side reading tool.
For verse-by-verse commentary and cross-references, Bible Hub is a genuinely useful free resource.
Please also consider speaking with a doctor or counselor if this continues — caring for yourself this way is not in conflict with faith.