8 Bible Verses about Heaviness
Most Relevant Verses
to order in Zion those that mourn, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
Even in laughter, the scorner has pain in his heart, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.
In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,
Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.
For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.