22 Bible Verses about Heavy Burdens

Come to me, all [of you] who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrange [it] with him.

So then, my father loaded a heavy yoke on all of you, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!'"

He spoke to them according to the advice of the youngsters, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add onto your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."

[It is] good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood.

And they tie up heavy burdens and put [them] on people's shoulders, but [they] themselves are not willing with their finger to move them

So he said, "Woe to you also, legal experts, because you load people [with] burdens hard to bear, and [you] yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers!

Look! I [am] going to press [you] down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain [is pressed down].

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me?

"And I spoke to them at that time, {saying}, 'I am not able to bear you alone.

How can I bear you {by myself}, your burden and your load and your strife?

David said to him, "If you move on with me, you will be a burden to me,

The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

Anxiety in the heart of a man will weigh him down, but a good word will cheer him.

For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My rebellion was bound [as] a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck [and] caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands [of those whom] I cannot withstand.

saying, 'These last [people] worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!'

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the [province of] Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond [our] strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

For each one will carry his own burden.

"But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly

For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,