Bible Verses About Family Tragedy

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

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

My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.

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

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

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.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

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

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it.

And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;