42 Bible Verses about grieving

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

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are like 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 better.

My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen me according unto your word.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto 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 you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials:

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

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

But though he cause grief, yet will he 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 them who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

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

For thus says the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none 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 there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be regretted: but the sorrow of the world works death.

And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you.

In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is grief.

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

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

The heart knows its own bitterness; and a stranger does not share its joy.

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

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Your sun shall no more go down; neither shall your moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your 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 saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

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 will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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

And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

But if any has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overburden 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.