Bible Verses About Grief

Ezekiel 31:15

“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.”

Daniel 10:2

“In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.”

Hosea 4:3

“Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.”

Hosea 9:4

“They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.”

Hosea 10:5

“The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.”

Joel 1:8

“Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!”

Joel 1:9

“The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.”

Joel 1:10

“The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.”

Joel 1:13

“Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.”

Joel 2:12

““Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.””

Amos 1:2

“He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.””

Amos 5:16

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.”

Amos 8:8

“Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.”

Amos 8:10

“I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.”

Amos 9:5

“For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.”

Micah 1:8

“For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.”

Micah 1:11

“Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.”

Nahum 3:7

“It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?””

Zechariah 7:5

““Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?”

Zechariah 12:10

“I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.”