Quotes About Sorrow

And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.

As they began emptying their sacks, there in each manís sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

Then they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.

And your servant my father said to us, ëYou know that my wife bore me two sons.

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.í

sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

Then a great cry will go out over all the land of Egypt. Such an outcry has never been heard before and will never be heard again.

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

When the people heard these bad tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.

And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.

He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.

“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why wonít you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

The ark of God was captured, and Eliís two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

Now Eliís daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of Godís ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.

When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.

So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.