I feel hopeless

⁵Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. ⁶My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. ⁷Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. ⁸The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. ⁹I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” ¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” ¹¹Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

¹³Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

²¹This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope. ²²It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. ²³They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. ²⁴“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.” ²⁵The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. ²⁶It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry. ²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. ³He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

¹But now the LORD who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. ²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.