Bible Verses About Grief

2 Samuel 3:31

“David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.”

2 Samuel 11:26

“When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.”

2 Samuel 11:27

“When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.”

2 Samuel 13:37

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

2 Samuel 14:2

“Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.”

2 Samuel 19:1

“Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.””

2 Samuel 19:2

“The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.””

1 Kings 13:29

“The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.”

1 Kings 13:30

“He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!””

1 Kings 14:13

“All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.”

1 Kings 14:18

“All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.”

1 Chronicles 7:22

“Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.”

2 Chronicles 35:24

“So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.”

Ezra 10:6

“Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.”

Nehemiah 1:4

“When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,”

Nehemiah 8:9

“Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.”

Esther 4:3

“In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.”

Esther 6:12

“Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.”

Esther 9:22

“as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.”

Esther 14:2

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