Bible on Loneliness

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.