Bible Verses About Tragic Family Situation

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.

And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

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?

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 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.

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

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 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.

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

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

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

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

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

And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

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

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

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;

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

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

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

And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

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

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

And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.