Topic
Despair
23 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Corinthians 4:8ISBE · Torrey Saints enabled to overcome
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
- Genesis 4:13Torrey Exemplified — Cain
And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- Genesis 4:14Torrey Exemplified — Cain
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
- Deuteronomy 28:34Torrey Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
- Deuteronomy 28:67Torrey Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
- 2 Samuel 17:23Torrey Exemplified — Ahithophel
¶ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
- Job 6:26ISBE
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- Job 7:6Torrey Saints sometimes tempted to
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- Job 34:6ISBE
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- Psalms 42:5Torrey Trust in God, a preservative against
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 42:11Torrey Trust in God, a preservative against
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.
- Isaiah 8:21Torrey LEADS TO — Blasphemy
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
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- Isaiah 17:11 ISBE
- Jeremiah 2:25 Torrey LEADS TO — Continuing in sin
- Jeremiah 17:9 ISBE
- Jeremiah 18:12 Torrey LEADS TO — Continuing in sin
- Lamentations 3:18 Torrey Saints sometimes tempted to
- Matthew 27:5 Torrey Exemplified — Judas
- 2 Corinthians 4:9 Torrey Saints enabled to overcome
- Revelation 6:16 Torrey Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
- Revelation 9:6 Torrey Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
- Revelation 16:10 Torrey Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
- Revelation 16:11 Torrey LEADS TO — Blasphemy
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
de-spar': The substantive only in 2Co 4:8, "perplexed, but not in (the Revised Version (British and American) "yet not unto") despair," literally, "being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss." "Unto despair" here conveys the force of the Greek prefix ex ("utterly," "out and out"). Desperate, in Job 6:26; Isa 17:11. In the latter instance, the Hebrew adjective is derived from a verb = "to be sick," and the literally, rendering would be "incurable" (compare Job 34:6, "my wound is incurable"). Desperately in Jer 17:9 the King James Version, where the heart is said to be "desperately (i.e. incurably) wicked" or "sick."
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 0 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → See DESPONDENCY
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 20 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.