Grief (Bible Verses)

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Luke 23:49 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

Job 2:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

John 19:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

Lamentations 2:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

2 Samuel 18:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Lamentations 2:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

Psalms 77:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

John 19:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

John 11:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Luke 23:55 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

Numbers 21:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

2 Samuel 1:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

Psalms 88:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Genesis 50:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

2 Samuel 15:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

Jeremiah 9:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Judges 11:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

2 Samuel 1:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

Nehemiah 1:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

2 Samuel 1:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

2 Samuel 13:37 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

Genesis 50:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

2 Samuel 3:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

Jeremiah 9:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Ezekiel 24:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

2 Samuel 13:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

Psalms 88:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Lamentations 2:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Genesis 50:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

2 Samuel 20:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

Isaiah 22:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

2 Samuel 1:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Lamentations 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

2 Samuel 3:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

John 11:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.

2 Corinthians 2:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

2 Samuel 13:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

2 Samuel 19:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

Psalms 119:158 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Genesis 23:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

John 11:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!

2 Samuel 1:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

2 Samuel 3:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

Lamentations 3:49 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.

Micah 1:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

Genesis 37:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

2 Samuel 1:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

2 Samuel 21:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Lamentations 3:51 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

2 Samuel 18:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

Zechariah 12:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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;

Genesis 37:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

2 Samuel 1:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 18:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

Luke 7:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

2 Samuel 13:39 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

John 20:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

2 Kings 4:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

Job 16:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Luke 23:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

2 Samuel 1:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.

2 Samuel 1:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

2 Samuel 18:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

2 Kings 4:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

2 Samuel 1:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

John 11:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.

1 Samuel 4:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

2 Samuel 3:37 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

2 Samuel 18:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

2 Samuel 13:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.

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