42 Bible Verses about grieving

For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

My eyes are dim by reason of sorrow, and all my thoughts are as a shadow.

For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made whole.

My soul melts for heaviness; strengthen me according to thy word.

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

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,

The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep.

Caph But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.

The blessing of the LORD is that which makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

For thus hath the LORD said, Do not enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor comfort them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, said the LORD, even mercy and compassion.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was very great.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and death shall be no more neither shall there be any more sorrow nor crying nor pain; for the former things are passed away.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, of which there is no need to repented; but the sorrow of the world works death.

And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and no one shall take your joy from you.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three weeks of days.

Even in laughter, the scorner has pain in his heart, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all mine enemies.

The heart knows the bitterness of his soul, and a stranger shall not intermeddle with his joy.

And she went and told those that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

They drink and forget their need and remember their misery no more.

that I have great sorrow and continual pain in my heart.

Thy sun shall set no more; neither shall thy moon wane: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

But when the young man heard that word, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Caph For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil and go; I will send thee to Jesse of Bethlehem for I have provided me a king among his sons.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

And they shall pull out their hair for thee and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul and bitter wailings.

But if any have caused me grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put a burden on you all.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.