Bible Verses About Mourning

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.

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

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

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

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

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

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

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

For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

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

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

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

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.

And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

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 when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

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.

In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

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 Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

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.

Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

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

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;