81 Bible Verses about Unhappiness

The days of our years, in them seventy years; and if in strengths, eighty years, and their pride labor and vanity; for being soon cut off and we shall fly away.

And they eating, he said, Truly I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up. And they being greatly grieved, began each of them to say to him, Far from it am I, O Lord:

And they began to be grieved, and to say to him one by one, What, not I? and another, What, not I?

And Esau will be the son of forty years, and he will take a wife, Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemah, daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they will be bitterness of spirit to Isaak and to Rebekah.

And Joseph will come to them in the morning, and will see them, and behold, they sad. And he will ask Pharaoh's eunuchs which were with him in guard of the house of his lord, saying, Why are your faces evil this day?

And he will turn about from them, and will weep; and he will turn back to them and speak to them, and he will take from them Simeon, and will bind him before their eyes.

And Elkanah her man will say to her, Hannah, why wilt thou weep? and why wilt thou not eat? and why will thy heart break? am I not good to thee above ten sons?

And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens,

And it will be in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year to Arthasatha the king, wine before him: and I shall lift up the wine and give to the king. And I was not sad before him. And the king will say to me, Wherefore thy face sad, and thou not being, sick? This nothing but sadness of heart. And I shall be very greatly afraid. And saying to the king, O king, thou wilt live forever: wherefore shall not my face be sad when the city of the house of my father's sepulchres was laid waste, and its gates consumed with fire?

And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.

If I wept not for him being hard of day: my soul was grieved for the needy.

Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou stand afar off? wilt thou hide for times in straits?

How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly.

The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,

And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished. And they working hatcheled flax and they weaving white linens were ashamed. And her pillars were broken in pieces, and all making wages, sorrowful in soul.

Thou saidst, Wo to me now! for Jehovah added grief upon my pain; I was weary in my sighing, and I found not rest.

And it will be announced to Joab, Behold, the king weeping, and he will mourn for Absalom.

But now do I retire to him having sent me; and not one of you asks me, Where dost thou retire But because I have spoken these to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

And the days will be multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife, will die; and Judah will be comforted, and will go up to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath.

And he will say, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother died, and he alone was left: and harm meeting him in the way in which ye shall go, and ye bring down my old age with grief to hades.

And I in my coming from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, in yet a length of land to go to Ephrath: and I shall bury her there in the way of Ephmth; this the house of bread.

Distress to me for thee, my brother Jonathan: thou wert sweet to me exceedingly: thy love to me was wonderful above the love of women.

And Joab will send to Tekoah and take from thence a wise woman, and he will say to her, Thou shalt mourn, and put on now garments of mourning, and thou shalt not be anointed with oil, and be thou as a woman this many days mourning for the dead:

Wail as the virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised. And they were greatly grieved.

And having risen from prayer, having come to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief;

And he said to them, What words these which, walking about, ye discuss with one another, and are of gloomy aspect?

And Mary stood near the tomb weeping without: therefore as she wept, she stood stooping into the tomb,

Grieving chiefly for the word which he spake, that they are about to see his face no more. And they sent him forward to the ship.

For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief.

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.

And Jehovah will say to him, Pass through into the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark a mark upon the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning for all the abominations being done in her midst

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife. And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.

And Moses will speak these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people will mourn greatly.

And all the sons of Israel and all the people will go up, and they will come to the house of God, and they will weep, and they will sit there before Jehovah, and they will fast in that day till the evening, and they will bring up burnt-offerings and peace before Jehovah.

And the sons of Israel will lament for Benjamin their brother, and they will say, There was cut off this day one tribe from Israel.

And a man I will not cut off to thee from mine altar to finish thine eyes and to cause thy soul to pine away: and all the increase of thy house, the men, shall die.

And Nehemiah, (he the Tirshatha) will say, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites causing the people to understand, To all the people this day is holy to Jehovah your God; ye shall not mourn, and ye shall not weep. For all the people weeping in their hearing to the words of the law. And he will say to them, Go ye; eat fatnesses, and drink sweetnesses, and send portions to him for whom nothing was prepared: for the day is holy to our Lord: and ye shall not grieve, for the joy of Jehovah this is your strength. And the Levites silencing to all the people, saying, Silence; for the day is holy; and ye shall not grieve.

A song of chanting to the sons of Korah to the overseer upon the lute, for affliction of instruction, for Heman the Ezrabite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, the day have I cried in the night before thee. My prayer shall come before thee: incline thine ear to my wailing; For my soul was filled with evils, and my life touched upon hades.read more.
I was reckoned with those going down to the pit: I was as a man of no strength: Free among the dead, as they wounded lying down in the grave, whom thou no more didst remember them, and they were cut off by thy hand. Thou didst set me in the pit beneath, in darknesses, in the shades. Thy wrath lay upon me, and thou didst afflict with all thy breakers. Silence. Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth. Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee.

And they will be diminished and brought low from oppression, evil and grief

The ways of Zion mourn from none coming to the appointment: all her gates being desolated: her priests groaning, her virgins grieved, and it is bitterness to her. Her adversaries were for head, her enemies were secure; for Jehovah afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children went into captivity before the face of him pressing.

And thou son of man, sigh with the breaking of the loins; and with bitterness thou shalt sigh before their eyes. And it was when they shall say to thee, For what sighest thou? and say, For the report, because it came: and every heart melted and all hands were relaxed, and every spirit was weak, and all knees shall go into water: behold, it came, and it was, says the Lord Jehovah.

And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.

Then Judas, he delivering him up, having seen that he was condemned, having felt regret, returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests, and the more ancient,

And Peter having come forth without wept bitterly.

That there is great grief to me and continued pain in my heart.

For if I grieve you, and who is he making me glad, except he being grieved by me And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all. For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.read more.
And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all.

For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you. Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us. For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.read more.
For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.

For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

And Ahab will come to his house rebellious and angry for the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spake to him: and he will say, I will not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he will lie down upon his bed and turn away his face, and not eat bread.

To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes? To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine.

And the young man having heard the word, departed, being grieved: for he was holding many possessions.

And he, being sad at the word, went away being grieved: for he had many possessions.

And he having heard these things, was sorely grieved: for he was very rich.

Jesus wept.

Then says he to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch ye with me.

And he says to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch.

Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping having come with her, was heavy in spirit, and troubled himself,

Now has my soul been troubled; and what should I say? O Father, save me from this hour: but for this came I to this hour.

These things Jesus having spoken, was troubled in spirit, and he testified, and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up.

And Jehovah will lament that he made man in the earth, and he will be grieved at his heart And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.

And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption.

And Jehovah will say, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah became great, and because their sin was exceedingly heavy,

I lamented that I made Saul for king, for he turned back from after me, and my words he set not up. And it will kindle to Samuel, and he will cry to Jehovah all the night

And the messenger will stretch forth his hand to destroy Jerusalem, and Jehovah will lament for the evil, and he will say to the messenger destroying among the people, Much now: let go thy hand. And the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

How often they will embitter him in the desert! they will grieve him in the waste.

They embittered and grieved his holy spirit; and he will turn to them for an enemy; he fought against them.

If dwelling, ye will dwell in this land, and I built you, and I will not pull down, and I planted you, and I will not pluck up: for I grieved for the evil which I did to you.

For if he afflicted, and he compassionated according to the multitude of his mercy. For he afflicted not from his heart and grieved the sons of men,

By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:

Mine eye fell away from grief; it grew old among all mine enemies. Depart from me, all ye doing vanity, for Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping.

Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan.

I Loved, for Jehovah will hear the voice of my supplication. For he inclined his ear to me, and in my days I will call. The pains of death surrounded me, and the distresses of hades found me: shall find straits and affliction.read more.
And upon the name of Jehovah will I call; now, O Jehovah, deliver my soul. Jehovah is merciful and just, and our God compassionates Jehovah watching the simple: I was brought low, and he will save for me.

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall turn back and come to Zion with a shout of joy and eternal joy upon their heads: and they shall attain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

And the redeemed of Jehovah shall turn back, and they came to Zion with shouting and eternal joy upon their head: and gladness and joy shall they attain; sorrow and sighing fled.

Thy sun shall no more go down, and thy moon shall not withdraw, for Jehovah shall be to thee for an eternal light, and the days of thy mourning were finished.

The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah anointed me to announce good news to the afflicted, he sent me to bind up to the broken of heart, to call freedom to the captives, and the opening of the prison to the bound. To call the year of acceptance to Jehovah, and the day of vengeance to our God; to comfort all those mourning; To set to those mourning in Zion, to give to them adorning instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the vestment of praise for the spirit of faintness; and it shall be called to them, The mighty trees of justice of the planting of Jehovah, to be honored.

Because I afflicted not sorrow upon myself, my heart was sick upon me.

And they came and shouted in the height of Zion, and they flowed together to the goodness of Jehovah, for the grain and for the new wine, and for the oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd: and their soul was as a watered garden, and they shall not add to pine away any more. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old men together: and I turned their mourning to joy, and I comforted them and caused them to rejoice from their sorrow.

Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy. A woman when she should bring forth, has grief, because her hour has come: and when the child should be born, she no more remembers the anguish, for the joy that a man was born into the world. And where truly ye now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you.