79 Bible Verses about Unhappiness

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

And as they were eating, he said, Truly I say to you, that one of you will betray me. And being exceedingly sorrowful, they began, each of them, to say to him, Is it I, Lord?

They began to be sorrowful, and to say to him one by one, Not I? and another, Not I?

And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad. And he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Why do ye look so sad today?

And he turned himself around from them, and wept. And he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do thou weep? And why do thou not eat? And why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons?

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days. And I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Now I was cupbearer to the king. And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not [formerly] been sad in And the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid. And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lays waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?

My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

And the fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast a hook into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish. Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded. And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.

Thou said, Woe is me now! For LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.

But now I go to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, Where do thou go? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. And Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm befalls him by the way in which ye go, then ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant thou have been to me. Thy love to me was wonderful, exceeding the love of women.

And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and do not anoint thyself with oil, but be as a woman who has a lon

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up. And they were exceedingly sorry.

And after rising up from his prayer, having come to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow.

And he said to them, What are these words that ye toss back to each other, while walking and are looking sad.

But Mary had stood outside near the sepulcher weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped down to the sepulcher.

sorrowing especially for the word that he had spoken, that they were going to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

And LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

And Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

Then all the sons of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before LORD, and fasted that day until evening, and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before LORD.

And the sons of Israel regretted for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart. And all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard th Then he said to them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our LORD; neither be ye grieved, for the joy of LORD is your strength. So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be silent, for the day is holy, neither be ye grieved.

O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee. Let my prayer enter into thy presence. Incline thine ear to my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.read more.
I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help, cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps. Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Sigh therefore, thou son of man. With the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness thou shall sigh before their eyes. And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look to me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him, as [a man] mourns for his only

Then Judas, who betrayed him, after seeing that he was condemned, having repented, he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders,

And having gone outside, Peter wept bitterly.

that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart.

For if I make you sad, who then is he who makes me glad except he who is made sad by me? And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you. For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.read more.
But if any man has caused sadness, he has not caused me sadness, but in part (that I may not bear down) you all.

Because even though I grieved you in the letter, I am not remorseful (even though I was remorseful), for I perceive that that letter grieved you, even though for an hour. Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved for repentance. For ye were grieved toward God, so that ye might suffer loss from us in nothing. For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.read more.
For behold this same thing--your grieving toward God. How much eagerness it worked in you, even a defense, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In everything ye demonstrated yourselves to be pure in

For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and tu

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.

But having become somber at the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was a man who has many possessions.

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

Jesus wept.

Then Jesus says to them, My soul is deeply grieved, as far as of death. Remain ye here and watch with me.

And he says to them, My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain ye here, and watch.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who gathered with her, weeping, he groaned in the spirit, and was himself troubled.

Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But because of this I came to this hour.

Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray me.

And LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. And LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man, to beast, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye are sealed for a day of redemption.

And LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

I regret that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry, and he cried out to LORD all night.

And when the [heavenly] agent stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, LORD relented of the evil, and said to the agent who destroyed the people, It is enough. Now stay thy hand. And the agent of LORD was by the thres

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.

If ye will still abide in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up, for I relent of the evil that I have done to you.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons of men.

In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity, for LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits [himself] to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.

I love LORD because he hears my voice and my supplications. Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call as long as I live. The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.read more.
Then I called upon the name of LORD. O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is LORD, and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful. LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion. And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy, [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Thy sun shall no more go down, nor shall thy moon withdraw itself, for LORD will be thine everlasting light. And the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and to proclaim the acceptable year of LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of LORD, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered gard Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together, for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Truly, truly, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. Ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become into joy. When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world. And now therefore indeed ye have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no man takes your joy away from you.