42 Bible Verses about grieving

Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

She went and gave news of it to those who had been with him, while they were sorrowing and weeping.

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.

As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.

For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.

For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time.

And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.