62 Bible Verses about Suffering, Emotional Aspects Of

I am horribly afraid for the ungodly that forsake thy law.

Behold: though I cry, yet violence is done unto me. I cannot be heard! Though I complain, there is none to give sentence with me.

How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah.

"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.

"For though I go before, I find him not; If I come behind, I can get no knowledge of him; If I go on the left side to ponder his works, I can not attain unto them. Again, if I go on the rightside, he hideth himself, that I cannot see him.

and therefore we would have come unto you, I Paul once and again: but Satan withstood us.

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out greatly and bitterly above measure, and said unto his father, "Bless me also, my father!"

But she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi: call me Mara, for the Almighty hath made me very bitter. I went out full: but the LORD hath brought me home empty. Why should ye then call me Naomi: seeing the LORD hath humbled me, and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity?"

Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods, and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction? Wherefore was not I obedient unto the voice of my teachers, and hearken not unto them that informed me?read more.
I am come almost into all misfortune, in the midst of the multitude and congregation."

{Lamed} O ye all that go fore by, behold and see, if there be any sorrow like unto mine. wherewith the LORD hath troubled me in the day of his fearful wrath.

And the king was moved and went up to a chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went thus he said, "My son Absalom, my son, my son, my son Absalom, would to God I had died for thee Absalom, my son, my son."

Sara was a hundred and twenty seven years old, for so long lived she, and then died in a head-city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham came to mourn Sara and to weep for her.

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season. Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted, but said, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." And thus his father wept for him.

And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long, for so long doth the embalming last, and the Egyptians bewept him seventy days.

Then Pharaoh arose the same night and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crying throughout Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead.

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the fields of Moab thirty days. And the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

And the king hid his face and cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom my son my son."

Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, saying, "On the hills was a voice heard, mourning, weeping and great lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not."

Thus sayeth the LORD, "The voice of heaviness, weeping and lamentation was heard on the hills; even of Rachel mourning for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not."

Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, "Lord if thou hadst been here, my brother had not been dead." When Jesus saw her weep, and the Jews also weep, which came with her; He groaned in the spirit, and was troubled in himself, and said, "Where have ye laid him?" They said unto him, "Lord, come and see."read more.
And Jesus wept.

When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."

And it fell on a day, as Elkanah had offered, that he gave to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters portions. But unto Hannah he gave a portion with a heavy cheer, for he loved her; nevertheless the LORD had made her barren. And thereto her enemy Peninnah vexed her a good in casting her in the teeth how the LORD had made her barren.read more.
And so did she year by year, as oft as she went up to the house of the LORD. And so chafed her: wherefore Hannah wept and ate not. Then said Elkanah her husband to her, "Hannah why weepest thou? And why eatest thou not? And why is thine heart so troubled? Am not I better to thee, than ten sons?"

sorrowing, most of all, for the words, which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place that was toward the south and fell on his face to the ground and bowed himself three times. And they kissed one another and wept together - but David more abundantly.

And Elisha saw and cried, "O my father, O my father! The chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof!" And saw him no more: and therefore took his own clothes and rent them in two pieces.

There shall be weeping, and gnashing of teeth: when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out a doors.

And when the angel of the LORD had spoken these words unto all the children of Israel, the people cried out and wept.

Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, 'Master, master open to us.'

And he said unto his brethren, "I am Joseph: doth my father yet live?" But his brethren could not answer him, for they were abashed at his presence.

Then Abimelech rose up betimes in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears, and the men were sore afraid.

Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies, and said, "If Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other may save itself."

And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked. And when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off and said unto Moses, "Talk thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God talk with us, lest we die."

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, ran away from him, and were sore afraid.

When he saw that, he arose and went for his life, and came to Beersheba in Judah, and left his lad there. And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."

Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings. With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it. My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.

Upon this, came all the king's wise men: but they could neither read the writing, nor show the king what it signified. Then was the king sore afraid in so much, that his color changed, and his lords were sore vexed.

and men's hearts shall fail them for fear, and for looking after those things which shall come on the earth. For the powers of heaven shall move.

Then when Judas, which betrayed him, saw that he was condemned, he repented himself; and brought again the thirty plates of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that."

And they heard the voice of the LORD God as he walked in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam hid himself and his wife also from the face of the LORD God, among the trees of the garden.

And when he is come, he will rebuke the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

When they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts, and said unto Peter, and unto the other apostles, "Ye men and brethren, what shall we do?"

For would not then those sacrifices have ceased to have been offered? Because that the offerers, once purged, should have had no more consciences of sins.

He was despised and cast out of men's company; and one that had suffered sorrow, and had experience of infirmity. And we were as one that had hid his face from him.

Then said Jesus unto them, "My soul is heavy even unto the death. Tarry ye here: and watch with me."

And said unto them, "My soul is very heavy even unto the death, tarry here and watch."

And beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily and do care for all congregations. Who is sick: and I am not sick? Who is hurt in the faith: and my heart burneth not?

I say the truth in Christ, and lie not, in that whereof my conscience beareth me witness in the holy ghost, that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh:read more.
Which are the Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law that was given and the service of God, and the promises,

By our rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Brethren, I would not have you ignorant of our trouble, which happened unto us in Asia. For we were grieved out of measure passing strength, so greatly that we despaired even of life. Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -

My little children - of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you -

In the month Nisan in the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, when the wine stood before him, I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king and I was heavy in his presence. Then said the king unto me, "Why lookest thou so sadly? Thou art not sick, that is not the matter, but thou art heavy hearted." Nevertheless I was sore afraid and said unto the king, "God save the king's life forever, should I not look sadly? The city of my fathers' burial lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire."

When they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or trouble,

The snares of death compassed me round about, the pains of hell got hold upon me.

And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, "Is it I, master?"

And they began to mourn, and to say to him one by one, "Is it I?" And another said, "Is it I?"

O Who will give my head water enough, and a well of tears for mine eyes, that I may weep night and day for the slaughter of my people?

And he turned from them and wept, and then turned to them again and communed with them, and took out Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes,

And Joseph made haste - for his heart did melt upon his brother - and sought for to weep, and entered into his chamber, for to weep there.

And Joseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood about him, but commanded that they should go all out from him, and that there should be no man with him, while he uttered himself unto his brethren. And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it.

And David went up on Mount Olivet and wept as he went, and had his head covered and went thereto barefoot. And all the people that was with him, had every man his head covered, and as they went, wept also.

Many also of the old priests and Levites and ancient fathers which had seen the first house - when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes - wept with a loud voice. And many shouted with joy, so that the noise gave a great sound, insomuch that the people could not know the joyful sound for the noise of the weeping among the people: for the people shouted with a loud cry, so that the noise was heard afar off.

When I heard these words, I sat me down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,