Bible Verses About Somber

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

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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

Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

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

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

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.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

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.

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

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

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

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

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

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

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.