50 Bible Verses About Mourning

“All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to SheolSheol is the place of the dead. to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.”

“The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.”

“Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.”

“Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.”

“When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the GodThe Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). of heaven,”

“Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.”

“For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.”

“You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,”

“I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.”

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

“Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.”

“Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.”

“In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.”

“Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.”

“In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:”

“The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.”

“to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.”

““Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;”

“Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come.”

“For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?”

“For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.”

“Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.”

“Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”

“‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’”

“The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.”

““Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.”

““For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.””

“They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.”

“Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.”

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.”

“I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.”

““A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”Jeremiah 31:15”

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13”

“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.”

“Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.”

“All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.””

“But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.”

“When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,”

“Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.”

“Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.”

“Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.”

“and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;”

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;”

“who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

“But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.”

“and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.”

“Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.”

“Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.”

“Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.”

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.””