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What are the most depressing verses in the Bible?

>> No.15470369

The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” (Matthew 26:24)

>> No.15470402

When most people think of the saddest verse in the Bible, they all tend to think of John 11:35, which is the verse that states "Jesus wept." It's the shortest verse of the Bible, and it's also incredibly powerful.

>> No.15470421

“If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.
Deuteronomy 23:10

>> No.15470445

>>15470210
Ecclesiastes 4:1-4

>> No.15470494

>>15470210
Proverbs 12:10

>> No.15470553

>>15470369
The 90th psalm imo. The whole of Job arguably. All ecclesiates really.

>> No.15470590

>>15470210

The whole thing post OT is depressing. Even the moments of levity are deceptive or schizo-tier, often outright lies and betray an inner self sorrow and worthlessness.

>> No.15470885

>>15470210
Psalm 88

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>>15470494
That's not depressing.

>> No.15470922
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Ecclesiastes 1
>12 I was a king in my day, I, the Spokesman; Israel my realm, Jerusalem my capital. 13 And it was my resolve to search deep and find out the meaning of all that men do, here under the sun; all that curse of busy toil which God has given to the sons of Adam for their task. 14 All that men do beneath the sun I marked, and found it was but frustration and lost labor, all of it; 15 there was no curing men’s cross-grained nature, no reckoning up their follies.

>> No.15470942

>>15470885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nGas0j2JVY

>> No.15471075

>>15470942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJVHoRWRxuU

>> No.15471325

Ecclesiastes 4:1
>Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed-- and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors-- and they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:2
>And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3
>But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

tfw antinatalists are right

>> No.15471445

>>15470553
Job 3:16

>> No.15471494

>>15471325
>>15470445
How do you guys pronounce Ecclesiastes? I want to mention the Bible irl but don't want to embarrass myself.

>> No.15471498

ITT: Jews who are posting the jew testament verses ergo the old testament.

New Testament is the real bible.

>> No.15471524

>>15471494
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-7BPU-OO9A

>> No.15471527

>>15471494
Ee-Klee-sea-ass-tees

>> No.15471559

>>15471524
aren't these meme videos that pronounce it wrong on purpose?

>> No.15471580

>>15471559
No those are parodies of these ones

>> No.15471668

>>15470210

14 So the trouble is not with the law, for it is good & spiritual. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. 15 I don’t know myself, for I want to do what is correct, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. 17 So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

18 & I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is correct, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

21 I have discovered this principle of life - that when I want to do what is correct, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God’s law with all of my mind. 23 But there is another power w/in me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by death & sin?

>> No.15472109

>>15471494
Ee klee zee ass tees

>> No.15472153

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul.

>> No.15472238

Job 3:3-26

>> No.15472280

>>15470210
Jesus wept
-The Bible

>> No.15473572

>>15471494
The Preacher

>> No.15473635

>>15471494
You can hear it in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrsQ1tc-2wk

>> No.15474847

>>15470210
>Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is meaningless. - ecclesiastes

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>>15470210
Proverbs 31:10
>Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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>>15474920
>Ecclesiastes 7:28 i found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all

>> No.15475074

Poor Onan

>> No.15475096

When the she bears tore those kids to pieces for making fun of that old bald Jew Elisha

>> No.15475104

>>15475096
Blessed moment for us baldies.

>> No.15475139

>>15470210
As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.

>> No.15475208

>>15472280
No matter what one believes religiously, that line is extremely powerful

>> No.15475223

>Eli, Eli - lama sabachthani?

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>>15474952
and they keep saying the Bible isn't the word of God

>> No.15475285

>>15475104
Go up, you baldy!

>> No.15475296

>>15472280
>>15470402
>Jesus wept
over a shekel.

>> No.15475684

14 Cursed be the day I was born!
May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
who made him very glad, saying,
“A child is born to you—a son!”
16 May that man be like the towns
the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing in the morning,
a battle cry at noon.
17 For he did not kill me in the womb,
with my mother as my grave,
her womb enlarged forever.
18 Why did I ever come out of the womb
to see trouble and sorrow
and to end my days in shame?

>> No.15476763

>>15470421
this was a cleanliness thing. it made him Unclean (both capital and lowercase u) he was allowed back in the next day if he washed himself.

>>15470553
those are rough yeah

i worry about Saul and David, David was cool and God loved David, but God didn't love Saul. God also didn't love Cain's sacrifices. I hope there is some way of not having an irritating/chafing spirit to God

>> No.15476784

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

>> No.15476797

But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod, so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.” And the king was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given. He sent and had John beheaded in the prison, and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and they went and told Jesus. Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

>> No.15477565

>>15470210
1 Kings 19:4

"I have had enough, Lord...take my life; I am no better than my ancestors"

>> No.15478569

>>15476784
Why did he say that?

>> No.15479248

>>15471325
My diary desu

>> No.15479256

>>15478569
In that moment he kinda forgot about celestial eternity

>> No.15479352

>>15476797
The suffering of man in general, and the sacrifice asked of Jesus in particular, was so great that even if asked of God himself, would cause him to doubt his own existence.

>> No.15479356

>>15477565
Sounds like a bad translation. The Bible doesn't advocate for suicide

>> No.15479386

>>15470210
Matthew 7:13–14
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

>> No.15479778

>>15479386
this

>> No.15480170

>>15471498
If so why is it always appended to the back of the OT? Also aside from that dubious end of the world story, the NT is distinctly more upbeat and inspirational by comparison.

>> No.15480254

>>15479356
Your reading comprehension is what's bad rather.

>> No.15480296

>>15480254
I have an IQ of 138, my reading comprehension isn't bad. Sincerely go fuck yourself.

>> No.15480340

The most depressing part of Ecclesiastes is the quality of its translation. If you knew how different the original Hebrew is, you would cry. It is literally divine.

>> No.15480566

>>15478569
it is the beginning of s psalm'
Most people see it as depressing, however is is actually affirming if one reads the whole thing

>> No.15480635

>>15480340
How do I learn Hebrew?

>> No.15481289

>>15470210
Jeremiah passim. Also Lamentations.

>> No.15481544

>>15478569
Its the beginning of a prayer

>> No.15481572

>>15471494
The only confirmed correct pronuncation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNavpxx_PPk

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>>15470922
Bro...it's almost nihilist in how it describes man's efforts as being pointless.

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Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

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>>15479386

>> No.15481922

>>15480340
Tell me about different please

>> No.15481954

>>15470402
Came here to say exactly this

>> No.15482010

>>15471494
Ec-le-si-ay-tees

>> No.15482021

>>15470210
Matthew 7:21
You need both works and grace to get into heaven, can't have just one and not the other, you need both.

>> No.15482033

Abrahamic religions seem to be interwoven with a peculiar and profound sadness, at least to me. Does anyone else get this impression?

>> No.15482410

>>15482033
I have totally opposite impression. What part of Abrahamic religions have profound sadness in your opinion?

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>>15482033
Yes. I'd say it's because of the state of the world. We live amongst vast vast pleasures, we have opportunities to medicate and coom our way through life. But that's wrong. It harms our souls, we give in to earthly desires, we cheapen and abuse our own bodies. Many will go through life this way completely oblivious, the deep disgust instinct we have is constantly suppressed by social standards, political views, and drugs.
Such problems have always existed but never has it been so bad. I doubt I could be so strongly Christian if I was born in another time. You see the whoring out with onlyfans and prostitution, the hyper sexuality, homo sexuality, transgenderism, lies, dishonesty, violence, the scummy financial system, people dying of drugs or going homeless while their government sends soldiers and money abroad. It's deeply disheartening in a way, but it only drives you further towards the middle of the righteous path. I've developed a revulsion seeing how these things lead us astray. Cooming and porn are now sick to me. Using people like meat then discarding them strikes me deeply on a very intimate level. Those who flagrantly lie have become far less in my eyes.

All of this culminates into a sobering, and yet profoundly sad, worldview. We recognise the great things of the world. We see these little things in our daily actions and those of others. Being kind and courteous, being truthful and honest, being forgiving and not too hot tempered. But also in standing up for what's right despite all social and worldly opposition. Something so obviously harmful by porn enjoys a large spot on the internet and yet someone can have their life ended by saying the wrong thing on twitter. Porn which corrupts the minds of young men and women alike, creates an addiction in many men and leads to women participating like with this tinder/onlyfans trend. It's so astonishingly corrupt. It takes the most physically and spiritually intimate action any man and woman can share together and turns it into a sick hedonistic method of pleasure extraction. But people like it nonetheless, they want to coom.

We really do live in a fallen world. That fact always hangs in the foreground of modern life. But we can't become doomers because of it. Jesus appreciates our struggle, and he will always wait on us.

>2 Timothy 1:7-9

>7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
>8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of >the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
>9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own >purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

>> No.15482584

Anybody have any good resources or advice for Christians struggling with "depression"? Had a rough day.
>John 15:19 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
>>15482445
good post <3

>> No.15482662

>>15470210
Guys, I am depressed as fuck because I think I am doomed, I have fapped to tranny porn and stuck my dick and finger and other things in my ass, thing is I heard this is worse than murder so I am really confused as to wether to continue living a christian life or go full crazy enjoying the little time I have left.

>> No.15482851

>>15482584
Thanks, I'm not a proper orthobro but I find Father Spyridon speaks very wise words. It helps that he's blessed with a wonderful speaking voice.
https://youtu.be/qSAxsUbTSD4

>>15482662
>I have fapped to .... and done...
See the pic from >>15482445
You may not be living a Christian life but God is all merciful and would be happy to see you return.
Take this
https://youtu.be/M2nbL0LY7uo

>> No.15482926

>>15470445
Based. I love Ecclesiastes. Without God, meaning is absent.

>> No.15482986

>>15482410
Hm, I'm not Christian but I like Jesus. I suppose it's his suffering on the Cross that depresses me. We are born in sin and the evil in my heart caused the suffering of the most innocent man who has been and will be. How can I not feel pangs of love for one who willingly came into the world to be punished in my place? I feel guilty and sad for Jesus, I suppose that's why I feel sad

>> No.15483077

>>15470210
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

>> No.15483811

>>15472280
>>15470402
Why did Jesus wept?

>> No.15484979 [DELETED] 

>>15483811
weep, you deep web weeb