100 Bible Verses About Mourning

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests.

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

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

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.

And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

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.

Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.

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.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

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.

And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel–mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

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

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer–sheba seventy thousand men.

And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

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:

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.