'Sorrow' in the Bible
How long must I take counsel in my soul,Having sorrow in my heart day after day?How long will my enemy exalt himself and triumph over me?
For my life is spent with sorrowAnd my years with sighing;My strength has failed because of my iniquity,And even my body has wasted away.
The Lord is near to the heartbrokenAnd He saves those who are crushed in spirit (contrite in heart, truly sorry for their sin).
I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.
For I am ready to fall;My sorrow is continually before me.
For I do confess my guilt and iniquity;I am filled with anxiety because of my sin.
My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit;A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
My eye grows dim with sorrow.O Lord, I have called on You every day;I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].
The days of our life are seventy years—Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,For it is soon gone and we fly away.
He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;He has shortened my days.
When they are diminished and bowed down (humbled)Through oppression, misery, and sorrow,
The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;I found distress and sorrow.