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Top 12 most popular verses about disappointment
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
— Proverbs 13:12
"Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
— Psalm 43:5
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
— Jeremiah 29:11
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all."
— 2 Corinthians 4:16-17
"For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning."
— Psalm 30:5
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest."
— Psalm 22:1-2
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
— Isaiah 55:8-9
"Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
— Lamentations 3:21-23
"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
— Revelation 21:4
"And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us."
— Romans 5:5
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
— Romans 8:28
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope."
— Job 7:6
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"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
— Proverbs 13:12
Context: Delayed hope causes heartache - disappointment is real pain.
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest."
— Psalm 22:1-2
Context: Honest cry when God seems absent - expressing disappointment.
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope."
— Job 7:6
Context: Job felt his days were ending without hope.
"My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?""
— Psalm 42:3
Context: Tears and questions when disappointed in God.
"So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.""
— Lamentations 3:18
Context: Feeling that all hope from God is gone.
"Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?"
— Psalm 88:14
Context: Questioning why God seems to hide.
"How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?"
— Psalm 13:1
Context: David asks how long God will seem absent.
"Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness."
— Job 30:26
Context: Hoped for good but received evil - deep disappointment.
"Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror."
— Jeremiah 14:19
Context: Hoped for healing but found only terror.
"Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?"
— Psalm 77:7-9
Context: Series of disappointment questions about God.
"but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place."
— Luke 24:21
Context: Disciples disappointed after Jesus' crucifixion.
"In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help."
— Psalm 31:22
Context: Felt cut off from God in disappointment.
"For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food."
— Psalm 102:3-4
Context: Physical and emotional effects of disappointment.
"But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.""
— Isaiah 49:14
Context: Feeling forsaken and forgotten by God.
"He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree."
— Job 19:10
Context: Hope uprooted like a torn tree.
"I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple."
— Jonah 2:4
Context: Jonah felt banished but chose to look to God anyway.
"Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?"
— Numbers 14:3
Context: Israelites disappointed and doubted God's plan.
The unfailing hope we have in Christ that never lets us down.
"Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
— Psalm 43:5
Context: Preach hope to your disappointed soul.
"Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
— Lamentations 3:21-23
Context: God's mercies are new every morning - trust His faithfulness.
"And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us."
— Romans 5:5
Context: Hope in God will not disappoint.
"Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him."
— Psalm 62:5
Context: Find rest in God - hope comes from Him alone.
"Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes."
— Psalm 37:7
Context: Be still and wait patiently in disappointment.
"Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."
— Psalm 27:14
Context: Wait for God with strength and courage.
"but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
— Isaiah 40:31
Context: Hope in God renews strength after disappointment.
"I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope."
— Psalm 130:5
Context: Wait for God and put hope in His word.
"But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me."
— Micah 7:7
Context: Watch in hope - God will hear.
"Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God."
— 1 Peter 1:21
Context: Faith and hope are in God who raises the dead.
"We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield."
— Psalm 33:20
Context: Wait in hope - God is our help and shield.
"The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."
— Lamentations 3:25-26
Context: God is good to those who hope in Him.
"the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love."
— Psalm 147:11
Context: God delights in those who hope in His love.
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
— Romans 15:13
Context: God fills with hope, joy, and peace.
"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain."
— Hebrews 6:19
Context: Hope is an anchor for the soul.
"For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth."
— Psalm 71:5
Context: God has been my hope since youth.
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."
— Romans 12:12
Context: Be joyful in hope despite affliction.
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."
— Hebrews 10:23
Context: Hold to hope - God who promised is faithful.
Trusting that God's purposes are higher even when our plans fail.
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
— Jeremiah 29:11
Context: God's plans are for good, hope, and a future.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
— Isaiah 55:8-9
Context: God's ways are higher - trust His greater perspective.
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
— Romans 8:28
Context: All disappointments work together for good.
"Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."
— Proverbs 19:21
Context: God's purpose prevails over our plans.
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."
— Genesis 50:20
Context: What was meant for harm, God uses for good.
"In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps."
— Proverbs 16:9
Context: We plan, but God directs our actual steps.
"I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, 'My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.'"
— Isaiah 46:10
Context: God knows the end from the beginning.
"In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will."
— Ephesians 1:11
Context: God works out everything according to His will.
"I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?"
— Jeremiah 32:27
Context: Nothing is too hard for God - He can redeem disappointment.
"I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted."
— Job 42:2
Context: No purpose of God can be thwarted.
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end."
— Ecclesiastes 3:11
Context: God makes everything beautiful in His time.
"The Lord will vindicate me; your love, Lord, endures forever—do not abandon the works of your hands."
— Psalm 138:8
Context: God will fulfill His purpose for you.
"For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
— Isaiah 14:27
Context: God's purposes cannot be thwarted.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
— Proverbs 3:5-6
Context: Trust God's plan, not your understanding.
"But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold."
— Job 23:10
Context: God knows the way - testing produces gold.
"The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him."
— Psalm 37:23
Context: God makes your steps firm despite disappointments.
"Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him."
— James 1:12
Context: Persevering through disappointment brings the crown of life.
How to process disappointment and move forward with renewed faith.
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all."
— 2 Corinthians 4:16-17
Context: Don't lose heart - troubles produce eternal glory.
"For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning."
— Psalm 30:5
Context: Weeping at night, joy in the morning.
"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
— Revelation 21:4
Context: One day all disappointment will end forever.
"In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."
— 1 Peter 1:6-7
Context: Trials prove genuine faith more valuable than gold.
"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us."
— Romans 8:18
Context: Present suffering can't compare to future glory.
"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior."
— Habakkuk 3:17-18
Context: Rejoice in God even when everything fails.
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."
— 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Context: God comforts in disappointment so we can comfort others.
"Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them."
— Psalm 126:5-6
Context: Sowing in tears leads to reaping in joy.
"and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor."
— Isaiah 61:3
Context: God gives beauty for ashes, joy for mourning.
"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
— Psalm 34:18
Context: God is close to the brokenhearted.
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."
— Matthew 5:4
Context: Those who mourn will be comforted.
"Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy."
— John 16:20
Context: Grief will turn to joy.
"Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me."
— Psalm 23:4
Context: God is with us in the darkest valleys.
"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze."
— Isaiah 43:2
Context: God promises to be with us through disappointment.
"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."
— Psalm 147:3
Context: God heals broken hearts and binds wounds.
"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."
— 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Context: Pressed but not crushed - disappointed but not destroyed.
"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
— Psalm 73:26
Context: Even when heart fails, God remains our strength.
"being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
— Philippians 1:6
Context: God will complete His work in you.
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