13 Bible Verses about Sighing

For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die,

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

I called on Your name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest pit. You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my relief, at my cry for help.

Therefore the redeemed of Jehovah shall return and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head. Gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.

You said, Woe is me now, for Jehovah has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Let all their wickedness come before You; and do to them as You have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

The roads of Zion mourn without any going to the appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests sigh; her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

And looking up to Heaven, He sighed and said to him, Ephphatha! (that is, Be opened!)

And He sighed deeply in His spirit and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I say to you, There shall no sign be given to this generation.

Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and He shall hear my voice.