100 Bible Verses About Sorrow

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

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

And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

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.

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

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.

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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

Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

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 Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez–uzza to this day.

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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 the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.