'Groan' in the Bible
Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,
Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have seen after its graven images, And in all its land groan doth the wounded.
Cease to groan, for the dead thou dost make no mourning, thy bonnet bind on thee, and thy shoes thou dost put on thy feet, and thou dost not cover over the upper lip, and bread of men thou dost not eat.'
Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,
for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.
And not only so, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;
for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.