19 Bible Verses about Other Sad People

When Joseph came to see them in the morning, he noticed how downcast they looked! They were both very sad.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who were with him in prison in his master's house, "Why are you so sad today?"

He reported to his brothers, "My money has been returned! It's right here in my sack!" Trembling with mounting consternation, each of them asked one another, "What is God doing to us?"

Then Moses reported this to the Israelis, but they did not listen to Moses due to their irritation and impatience because there was no deliverance and because of the cruel bondage.

"Why are you so depressed these past few mornings," Jonadab asked Amnon, "since you're a son of the king? Why not tell me?" Amnon replied, "I'm in love with my brother Absalom's sister Tamar."

It came about in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes, during the month of Nissan, the king was about to drink some wine that I was preparing for him. Now I had never looked troubled in his presence. The king asked me, "Why do you look so troubled, since you're not ill? This cannot be anything else but troubles of the heart." Then I was filled with fear. I replied to the king, "May the king live forever. Why shouldn't I be troubled, since the city where my ancestral sepulchers are located lies waste, with its gates burned by fire?"

The king was deeply saddened, yet because of his oaths and his guests he was reluctant to refuse her.

Under pressure because of his promises and his assembled guests, the king ordered that it be done.

Teman, our mighty soldiers will be dismayed, so that every man from Esau's Mountain will be slaughtered."

He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy.

For he has been longing for all of you and is troubled because you heard that he was sick.

They will kill him, but he will be raised on the third day." Then they were filled with grief.

Feeling deeply distressed, each one began to ask him, "Surely I am not the one, Lord?"

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts.

But when the young man heard this statement he went away sad, because he had many possessions.

Shocked at this statement, the man went away sad, because he had many possessions.

But when the official heard this he became sad, because he was very rich.

"When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were very disturbed and went and reported to their master everything that had occurred.