メンタルヘルスに関する19の聖句と、それぞれの本来の執筆目的

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…