19 Bible Verses about Other Sad People

When Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them: behold, they were sad.

And he asked them, saying, "Wherefore look ye so sadly today?"

And he said unto his brethren, "My money is restored me again, and is even in my sack's mouth." Then their hearts failed them, and were astonished and said one to another, "How cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?"

And Moses told the children of Israel even so: But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.

And he said unto him, "How cometh it that thou, being the king's son, art thus consumed every morning? Mayest thou not tell it me?" And Amnon answered him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."

In the month Nisan in the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, when the wine stood before him, I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king and I was heavy in his presence. Then said the king unto me, "Why lookest thou so sadly? Thou art not sick, that is not the matter, but thou art heavy hearted." Nevertheless I was sore afraid and said unto the king, "God save the king's life forever, should I not look sadly? The city of my fathers' burial lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire."

And the king was sorry. Yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat at supper also, he would not put her beside her purpose.

And the King sorrowed: nevertheless for his oath's sake, and for their sakes, which sat also at the table, he commanded it to be given her.

Thy giants, O Teman, shall be afraid, for through the slaughter they shall be all overthrown upon the mount of Esau.

And he said unto them, "What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk, and are sad?"

For he longed after you, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard say that he should be sick,

and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again." And they sorrowed greatly.

And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, "Is it I, master?"

And they began to mourn, and to say to him one by one, "Is it I?" And another said, "Is it I?"

But because I have said such things unto you, your hearts are full of sorrow.

When the young man heard that saying, he went away mourning. For he had great possessions.

But he was discomforted with that saying, and went away mourning, for he had great possessions.

When he heard that, he was heavy, for he was very rich.

When his other fellows saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their Lord all that had happened.