19 versets bibliques sur la santé mentale, et le but réel de chacun d'entre eux

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Résumé

  • Scripture has no word for depression and no advice about treating it; what it has is a lament tradition and five men who said they would rather be dead.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles who had been told the return was seventy years away (Jeremiah 29:10).
  • Joshua 1:9 is a military commission to a man taking command, not a word about mood.
  • In Psalm 23 every verb belongs to the shepherd: he makes the sheep lie down, leads them and refreshes them.
  • Elijah asked to die, and the first answer was sleep and food (1 Kings 19:4-8).

The Bible has no word for depression or anxiety disorder, but it gives honest company to people in mental distress. Laments make up roughly a third of the Psalms, and Psalm 88 ends in darkness with no resolution. Moses, Elijah, Job, Jonah and Jeremiah each said they would rather die or wished they had never been born (Numbers 11:15; 1 Kings 19:4; Job 3:11; Jonah 4:3; Jeremiah 20:14-18), and Scripture keeps their words. The nineteen verses below include the ones…

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Les citations bibliques sont tirées de la version Louis Segond (ou équivalent).

This page is not medical advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a doctor.

Psalm 88 ends without resolution; its final word in Hebrew is darkness.

The five who asked to die: Moses (Numbers 11:15), Elijah (1 Kings 19:4), Job (Job 3:11-13), Jonah (Jonah 4:3) and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:14-18).

Elijah is given food and sleep at 1 Kings 19:5-8, before anything is said to him.

Job’s friends sit with him in silence for seven days at Job 2:13.

Paul’s despair of life itself is at 2 Corinthians 1:8. Luke is called the beloved physician at Colossians 4:14.

The burden of Galatians 6:2 is baros; the load of Galatians 6:5 is phortion.

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