42 Bible Verses about grieving

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Job 17:7

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.

Psalm 31:10

For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And my body has wasted away.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter,
For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every man,
And the living takes it to heart.

Lamentations 3:32

For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.

James 4:9

Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “My lovingkindness and compassion.

Job 2:13

Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

Daniel 10:2

In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

Psalm 6:7

My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.

Mark 16:10

She went and reported to those who had been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping.

Romans 9:2

that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.

Isaiah 60:20

“Your sun will no longer set,
Nor will your moon wane;
For you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning will be over.

Lamentations 3:33

For He does not afflict willingly
Or grieve the sons of men.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.

1 Samuel 16:1

Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons.”

2 Corinthians 7:8

For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

Ezekiel 27:31

“Also they will make themselves bald for you
And gird themselves with sackcloth;
And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.

2 Corinthians 2:5

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you.

Psalm 35:14

I went about as though it were my friend or brother;
I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

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