13 Bible Verses about Sighing
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Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.
Let the groans of prisoners come into your presence. With your powerful arm (according to the greatness of your power) rescue those who are condemned to death.
They will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever. They will be forever free from sorrow and grief.
I called out your name in prayer, O Jehovah, out of the lowest prison. My voice came to you, Do not shut your ear to my relief, to my cry!
Jehovah's ransomed will return. They will enter Zion with singing! Everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
My life is spent from sorrow, my years from groaning. My strength staggers under the weight of my guilt, and my bones waste away.
You said: I am so miserable! Jehovah has added grief to my pain. I am worn out from groaning. I cannot find any rest.
Let all their badness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.
The roads to Zion are sad. No one comes to the holy meeting. All her doorways are desolate. Her priests are sighing out of sorrow. Her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Looking up to heaven he sighed and said to him: Ephphatha, that is, be opened.
He sighed deeply in his spirit and said: Why does this generation seek a sign? I tell you truly no sign will be given to this generation.
From Thematic Bible
Instruction » Sighing
So, son of man, groan with a breaking heart and with bitter crying while the people watch you. When they ask why you are groaning tell this: 'News has come that will discourage everyone. People's hands will hang limp, their hearts will lose courage, and their knees will become as weak as water. It is coming! It will surely take place!' Declares the Lord Jehovah.
