8 Bible Verses about Heaviness

to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

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

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is sadness.

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.