69 Bible Verses about Sorrow
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The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.
([Psalm of David]) How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I make decisions alone with sorrow in my heart day after day? How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief.
Why did I ever come forth from the womb to look on trouble and sorrow? My days have been spent in shame!
You greatly rejoice in this, though you have been grieved with various trials for a little while.
He told them: My heart is deeply grieved to the point of death. Stay with me and watch.
Indeed he was sick and near to death. But God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah: Remember, Jehovah, that I have served you faithfully and loyally. I have always tried to do what you wanted me to. Then he cried bitterly.
([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. Be merciful to me, Jehovah, for I am faint. O Jehovah, heal me, for my bones are in agony. I am in anguish. How long, O Jehovah, how long?read more.
Return, O Jehovah, and deliver me. Save me because of your unfailing love. No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave? I am worn out from groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. My eyes grow weak with sorrow. I am weak because of all my foes.
Do not consider your maidservant a worthless woman. I pray like this because I am miserable and filled with grief.
They all wept profusely, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him. (embraced him) (hugged him) (Genesis 45:14)
They will put him to death. The third day he will be raised from death. They were very sad.
When he finished his prayer he went to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of their sorrow.
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to cry because of her death.
Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. She stooped and looked into the tomb.
So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
David's army found out he was crying because his son died. Suddenly their day of victory turned into a day of sadness.
When he came near the gate of the city he saw people carrying a dead person. It was the only son of a widow. Many people were with her. When the Lord saw her he had sympathy for her. Do not cry, he said. He came near the casket and touched it. The bearers stood still. He said, Young man arise.
They were all weeping and morning her. He said: Do not weep for she is not dead, but sleeps.
Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping. He asked: Where have you laid him? They answered: Come and see Lord. Jesus wept.
They have dress themselves with sackcloth in their streets. On their housetops and in their squares everyone is wailing, taken down with tears.
I said: Turn away from me. Let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.
Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him. Weep continually for the one who goes away. For he will never return or see his native land.
Mourn for that nation, you that live nearby, all of you that know its fame. Say: 'Its powerful rule has been broken. Its glory and might are no more.'
So, son of man, groan with a breaking heart and with bitter crying while the people watch you.
And they will make their voice heard over you and will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.
Jehovah is near to those whose hearts and minds are humble and contrite. He saves the broken hearted and crushed in spirit.
You have seen trouble and grief and placed them under your control. The victim entrusts himself to you. You alone have been the helper of orphans.
He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
Then young women will rejoice and dance along with young men and old men. I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them. I will replace their sorrow with joy.
They will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever. They will be forever free from sorrow and grief.
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. He takes no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men, it is not within his heart.
Truly I tell you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
I do not want you to be ignorant brothers, concerning those who are asleep (in death). You do not need to sorrow like others who have no hope. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.
God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.
Those who quickly pursue other gods multiply their sorrows. I will not pour out their sacrificial offerings of blood or use my lips to speak their names.
Yet I will keep one of your descendants alive. He will serve me as priest. But he will become blind and lose all hope. All your other descendants will die in the prime of life.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you. But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
About that time Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing. He had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob's daughter.
Jonathan was angry that his father had insulted David. He got up and left the table. He did not eat anything all that day.
Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib. When he arrived there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.
Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark (signature) on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city.
And you are proud! You should have been filled with sadness that he did this deed. And you should have ejected (expelled) (excommunicated) (disfellowshiped) him from your congregation.
Peter remembered what Jesus told him: Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times. He went out and wept bitterly.
I now rejoice, not because you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance; for you were made sorry after a godly fashion, that you might not suffer loss by us. For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death. This very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it made in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, yes what vindication! You demonstrated yourself to innocent in the matter.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Her enemies are at ease and her foes have become her masters. Jehovah (YHWH) sends her sorrow because of the great number of her sins. Young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.
After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven.
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken. I mourn and dismay has taken hold of me.
Oh, I am wounded! My wound is serious. Then I thought that this is my punishment, and I will bear it.
If you will not listen, I will cry secretly over your arrogance. I will cry bitterly, and my eyes will flow with tears because Jehovah's flock will be taken captive.
Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying. All vineyards will lament. For I will pass through your midst, said Jehovah.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.
I [Micah] will lament and wail. I will go barefoot and naked. I will make a howling like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish. That day will be a day of trouble, devastation and desolation! It will be a day of darkness and gloom. Indeed that day will be a day of clouds and overcast skies.
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.
but the sons of the kingdom will be cast forth into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of earth will mourn. They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen.
When he came close to the city he wept over it. He said: If you only knew today the things needed to bring peace! But they are hidden from your eyes.
From Thematic Bible
Christ » He had the common experiences of humanity » Sorrow
He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. He was sorrowful and very troubled.
Distress » Sorrow » Common to all men
You who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is vanity.
A person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.
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The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!
He who obeys the law is a wise son. But he who is a companion of worthless men shames his father.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.
A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.
Humility of Christ » He had the common experiences of humanity » Sorrow
He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. He was sorrowful and very troubled.
Parents » Prayers » Sorrow
The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!
He who obeys the law is a wise son. But he who is a companion of worthless men shames his father.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.
A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.
Sickness » The wicked » A large amount » Sorrow
All his days he eats in darkness. He has much sorrow and anger with his sickness.
Sorrow » Godly » Parents
The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!
He who obeys the law is a wise son. But he who is a companion of worthless men shames his father.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.
A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.
Sorrow » Banished
God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.
They will come and shout for joy on top of Mount Zion. They will stream to it to enjoy Jehovah's blessings: fresh grain, new wine, olive oil, lambs and calves. Their lives will be like well-watered gardens, and they will never suffer again.
The Lamb who is in the middle of the throne will feed them and lead them to living fountains of water. God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.
He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. He will take away the disgrace of His people from the earth. Jehovah has spoken!
They will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever. They will be forever free from sorrow and grief.
Sorrow » The lord wiping away tears
The Lamb who is in the middle of the throne will feed them and lead them to living fountains of water. God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.
He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. He will take away the disgrace of His people from the earth. Jehovah has spoken! On that day his people will say: This is our God! We have waited for Him and now He will save us. This is Jehovah. We have waited for Him. Let us rejoice and be glad because He will save us.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. There was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying: Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. He will dwell with them and they will be his people! God will be with them, and be their God. read more.
God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.
Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious to me. O Jehovah help me. You turned my mourning into dancing. You loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.
Then young women will rejoice and dance along with young men and old men. I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them. I will replace their sorrow with joy. I will satisfy the priests with rich food. My people will be filled with my blessings, proclaims Jehovah.
Sorrow » Who shall have sorrow
Very much pain awaits wicked people, but loving-kindness and mercy surrounds those who trust Jehovah.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who stay long at the wine. They seek mixed wine.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some by longing for it have been led away from the faith. They have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
He who gives birth to a fool does it to his sorrow because the father of a fool has no joy.
The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student. The Lord Jehovah has opened my ears. I will not rebel, nor will I turn away from him. I will offer my back to those who whip me. I will offer my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me. read more.
The Lord Jehovah helps me. That is why I will not be ashamed. I have set my face like a flint (firm and resolute). I know that I will not be put to shame. The one who pronounces me innocent is near. Who will bring a case against me? Let us confront each other! Who accuses me? Let him draw near to me! The Lord Jehovah helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment and moths will eat them. Who among you respects Jehovah and obeys his servant? Let those who walk in darkness and have no light trust the name of Jehovah and depend upon their God. But all of you light fires and arm yourselves with flaming torches. So walk in your own light and among the torches you have lit. This is what you will receive from me: You will be tormented.
Sorrow » General references to
He said to the woman: I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
He was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised. We did not consider him to be worth much.
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. The spirit is broken by sorrow of the heart.
Sorrow » Of the lost
You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!
but the sons of the kingdom will be cast forth into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The king gave orders for that person to be tied hand and foot and thrown outside into the dark. That is where people will cry and grind their teeth in pain.
Throw the worthless servant into outer darkness. There will be crying and grinding of teeth.'
He will punish him severely, and send him to be with the hypocrites. There they will cry and grind their teeth.
Sorrow » Of jesus
After his suffering he will see the light and be satisfied. By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many. He will bear their iniquities.
He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. He was sorrowful and very troubled. He told them: My heart is deeply grieved to the point of death. Stay with me and watch. Then he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed: My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. read more.
When he came to the disciples, they were sleeping. He said to Peter: Could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray continually that you do not enter into temptation! A second time he went away and prayed, saying: Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, your will be done. He returned to find them sleeping again, for their eyes were heavy. He went away to pray a third time, saying the same words.
He said to them: I am very sorrowful to the point of death. Stay here with me and watch. He went forward a little ways and fell on the ground to pray. He prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him. He said: Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup from me. Even so not what I will, but what you will. read more.
He returned to find them sleeping. He said to Peter, Simon why do you sleep? Could you not watch for one hour? To avoid temptation watch and pray. The spirit truly is willing but the flesh is weak. Again he went away and prayed, and spoke the same words. He came and found them asleep again. They did not know what to say to him. He came a third time and said to them: Sleep and take your rest. It is enough the hour has come. Look, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners! Rise up and let us go. He that betrays me is near.
He prayed: Father if it is your will remove this cup from me, nevertheless not my will, but your will be done. An angel came to him and gave him strength. (possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
Sorrow » Who sorrow shall flee from
They will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever. They will be forever free from sorrow and grief.
Jehovah's ransomed will return. They will enter Zion with singing! Everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Sorrow » The sorrow of the world
For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.
Sorrow » What sorrow is
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness the appearance of the heart is made better. The heart (feelings) of the wise is in the house of mourning. The heart of fools is in the house of rejoicing.
Sorrow » Godly sorrow
For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.
Sorrow » Of david for absalom
The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!
They brought Joab word. They said: The king weeps and mourns for Absalom. David's army found out he was crying because his son died. Suddenly their day of victory turned into a day of sadness. The troops returned to Mahanaim without celebration. It was as if they ran away from battle and were ashamed. read more.
David held his hands over his face and kept on crying loudly. My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son! Joab went to the house where David was staying and told him: You have made your soldiers ashamed! They saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and wives as well. You are more loyal to your enemies than to your friends. You show your officers and soldiers that they do not mean a thing to you. You would be happy if Absalom was still alive even if the rest of us were dead. Now stand up! Go out there and thank them for what they did. If you do not, I swear by Jehovah you will not even have one man left on your side tomorrow morning. You may have had a lot of troubles in the past. But this will be the worst thing that has ever happened to you! The king sat in the gateway. The troops were told: The king is sitting in the gateway. So they went to the king. Meanwhile, Israel fled back to their homes.
Sorrow » Who increases sorrow
Sorrow » What has no sorrow
Sorrow » Who causes sorrow
He who winks the eye [in a jesture of malice] causes trouble. A babbling fool will fall.
Sorrow » Sorrow of the heart
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. The spirit is broken by sorrow of the heart.
Sorrow » Of mary and martha
Many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother. Martha went out to meet Jesus and Mary sat in the house. Martha said to Jesus: Lord if you had been here my brother would not have died. read more.
Even now I know that what ever you ask of God he will give it to you. Jesus replied: Your brother will rise again. Martha exclaimed: I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. He who puts active faith in me will live, even if he dies. Whoever lives and puts active faith in me will never die. Do you believe this? She said: Yes Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who is to come into the world. After she said this she went away and secretly called her sister Mary. She said: The teacher is here and calls you. Mary got up quickly and went to him. (Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village and was still at the place where Martha met him.) The Jews were with her in the house, consoling her. They saw Mary get up quickly and leave. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary saw Jesus she fell down at his feet. She said: Lord; if you had been here my brother would not have died. Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping. He asked: Where have you laid him? They answered: Come and see Lord. Jesus wept. The Jews therefore said: Look how deeply he loved him! Some of them said: This man opened the eyes of the blind. Could he have prevented this man from dying? Again Jesus groaned in himself. He went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid against it. Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man said: Lord by now the body has decayed for he has been dead four days. Jesus said to her: Did I not say that if you believe you shall see the glory of God?
Sorrow » From bereavement » Of jacob for joseph
Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time. All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.
Sorrow » God takes notice » Of hagar's
God heard the lad crying. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her: What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear! God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad. Hold him by the hand. I will make him a great nation. Then God opened her eyes. She saw a well of water. She filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink. read more.
God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
Sorrow » For sin
For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death. This very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it made in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, yes what vindication! You demonstrated yourself to innocent in the matter.
Sorrow » God takes notice » Of the israelites
Jehovah said: I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them. I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. My people have begged for my help. I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them. read more.
Now go to Pharaoh! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.
Sorrow » Sorrow and sighing will flee away,
They will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever. They will be forever free from sorrow and grief.
Sorrow » From bereavement » For benjamin
May God Almighty cause the man to have pity on you, so that he will give Benjamin and your other brother back to you. As for me, if I must lose my children, I must lose them.
Sorrow » Of hannah
No, I am not drunk, she answered. I have not been drinking! I am desperate. I have prayed and poured out my troubles to Jehovah.
Sorrow » No sorrow in heaven
God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.
Sorrow » Of jeremiah
Come to me all you who go by, keep your eyes on me! See if there is any pain like the pain of my wound. For Jehovah has sent it to me in the day of his burning anger.
the future » the seven No mores » No more » Sorrow
God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.
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Genesis 41:51Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh, because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father's family.
