Bible on Grief

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

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

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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

And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,

Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

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

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

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

And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.

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

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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

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

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?