100 Bible Verses About Loss

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.

So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

And Samuel said unto him, The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.

And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.

And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.

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

And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

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

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

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.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.