8 Bible Verses about Heaviness

To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, 'Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.