19 Bible Verses about Other Sad People

When Joseph came to them in the morning and looked at them, [he saw that] they were sad and depressed.

So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in confinement with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so down-hearted today?”

And he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned! Here it is in my sack!” And their hearts sank, and they were afraid and turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their impatience and despondency, and because of their forced labor.

He said to Amnon, “Why are you, the king’s son, so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” And Amnon said to him, “I am in love with Tamar, my [half-] brother Absalom’s sister.”

In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was placed before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not [previously] been sad in his presence. So the king said to me, “Why do you look sad when you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very frightened, and I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

The king was deeply grieved, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests [who might have regarded him as weak], he was unwilling to [break his word and] refuse her.

The king was distressed, but because of his oaths, and because of his dinner guests, he ordered it to be given her.

“And your mighty men shall be dismayed and demoralized, O Teman,
So that everyone from the mountain of Esau may be cut off in the slaughter.

Then Jesus asked them, “What are you discussing with one another as you walk along?” And they stood still, looking brokenhearted.

For he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

and they will kill Him, and He will be raised [from death to life] on the third day.” And they were deeply grieved and distressed.

Being deeply grieved and extremely distressed, each one of them began to say to Him, “Surely not I, Lord?”

They began to be grieved and deeply distressed and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?”

But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts [and taken complete possession of them].

But when the young man heard this, he left grieving and distressed, for he owned much property and had many possessions [which he treasured more than his relationship with God].

But the man was saddened at Jesus’ words, and he left grieving, because he owned much property and had many possessions [which he treasured more than his relationship with God].

But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich.

When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and they went and reported to their master [with clarity and in detail] everything that had taken place.