Scriptures About Depression

You will find many scriptures about depression and you will also find the Biblical cure. You will also find that the cure for these Biblical heroes was not in the form of medication, it was in their attitude toward God and their response to Him when He spoke.

Remember, these heroes were not perfect. David was a murderer and adulterer, yet he found his peace and happiness again by praising God through the hard times. Regardless of your past or of your present circumstances, you can find a better way and start enjoying life again!

I will include only a few examples of scriptures about depression, because I want you to focus mainly on the cure: to be mended and restored through a relationship with God, no matter what your past looks like to you!

The most important Biblical hero had a brief but extreme experience with depression.

Scriptures About Healing Depression

These scriptures about depression put those horrible feelings into beautiful, heartfelt words. Pay close attention to verse 5. That is where the healing comes from.

Ps 42:1-6

As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while men say to me all day long,
"Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go with the multitude,
leading the procession to the house of God,
with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
among the festive throng.

5 Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and 6 my God. (NIV)

King David Journals His Feelings in these Scriptures About Depression

Yes, he was one of the people who experienced "the fog" in these scriptures about depression. He was probably physically wounded and deeply spiritually wounded when he wrote the following scriptures.

Ps 38:5-8
5 My wounds fester and are loathsome
because of my sinful folly.
6 I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.
7 My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.
8 I am feeble and utterly crushed;

I groan in anguish of heart.

Ps 55:4-8
4 My heart is in anguish within me;
the terrors of death assail me.
5 Fear and trembling have beset me;
horror has overwhelmed me.
6 I said, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest
7 I would flee far away
and stay in the desert;
Selah

8 I would hurry to my place of shelter,
far from the tempest and storm."
NIV

Elijah Longs for Death

Here is one more example of depression in the Bible. Elijah, after just having seen God's marvelous power, runs for his life and hides. His fear, anxiety and fatigue result in suicidal thoughts.

1Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Pay attention to what happens next!

1Ki 19:5-13 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD;
but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

The Still Small Voice! Listen to it...

And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

...and come out of that cave!

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