Thematic Bible: Mourning for
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The Dead » Mourning for » Examples of grief
The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, "My son, Absalom! My son, my son, Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!"
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But she replied to them, "Don't call me 'Naomi'! Call me 'Mara' because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
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Then she died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
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So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably.
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All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. "No," he said, "I will go to the grave mourning my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.
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The Lord says, "A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone."
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When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.
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But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.
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So Peter got up and went with them, and when he arrived they brought him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, crying and showing him the tunics and other clothing Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
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Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.
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But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave."
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The Dead » Mourning for » Hired mourners
Because of Israel's sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: "In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.
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and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up -- because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets --
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Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.
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The Lord who rules over all told me to say to this people, "Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!"
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When Jesus entered the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,
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The Dead » Mourning for » General references to
David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!" Now King David followed behind the funeral bier.
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They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.
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The Israelites mourned for Moses in the deserts of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.
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They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord's people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.
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Related Topics
- Action Until Evening
- Afflicted To Death
- Bereavement, Experience Of
- Bereavement, Expression Of
- Cloth
- Dress
- Gestures
- Grave, The
- Lamenting
- Loneliness
- Loss