Bible Verses About Loneliness in a Crowd
Feeling unseen and misunderstood even among people, the loneliness of carrying things no one else can see.
Feeling misunderstood even among people is a unique burden that Jesus Himself carried on our behalf. He understands the loneliness of carrying things no one else can see and offers a peace that satisfies the soul's deepest longing. Find your sense of belonging first in His unconditional acceptance.
Key Passages
"For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after."
"Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness."
"I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me."
"He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me."
"I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel."
"For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee."
"My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off."
"For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:"
"But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance."
"We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company."
"I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul."
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
"And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter,What, could ye not watch with me one hour?"
"Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me."
"¶ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus."
"At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge."
"Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion."
"Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand."
"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory."
"Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee."
"My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."
"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."
"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
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