42 Bible Verses about grieving

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade.

For indeed he was sick nigh to death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

But though he causeth grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away.

For godly sorrow worketh penitence to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

My eye is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies.

The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD will be thy everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

And the LORD said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it was but for a season.

And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

But if any hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.