Bible on Grief

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

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

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.