Thematic Bible: Mourning for
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The Dead » Mourning for » Examples of grief
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!
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She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.
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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.
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The people of Israel went to Bethel and sat there in the presence of God until evening. They lifted their voices and wept bitterly.
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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.
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This is what Jehovah says: 'A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.'
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Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping.
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Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. She stooped and looked into the tomb.
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Peter went to them right a way. When he arrived they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
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Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.
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Jacob replied: My son will not go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If any harm comes to him on the trip you are taking, the grief would drive this gray-haired old man to his grave!
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The Dead » Mourning for » Hired mourners
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.
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Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.
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Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations (dirges) to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.
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Jehovah of Hosts says: 'Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come!
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Jesus went into the official's house and saw flute players and the crowd making a lot of noise.
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The Dead » Mourning for » General references to
David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.
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It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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The entire congregation learned that Aaron had died. They all mourned for him for thirty days.
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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.
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They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of Jehovah, because so many had been killed in battle.
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- Action Until Evening
- Afflicted To Death
- Bereavement, Experience Of
- Bereavement, Expression Of
- Cloth
- Dress
- Gestures
- Grave, The
- Lamenting
- Loneliness
- Loss