Bible Verses About Divine Grief

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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

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.

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

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

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

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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

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

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

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

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

Jesus wept.

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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

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

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.