Quotes About Grief

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

“Listen to us, sir. You are Godís chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”

“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”

“Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his motherís death.

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

When Jacobís sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacobís daughter—a thing that should not be done.

Now Deborah, Rebekahís nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your sonís robe or not.”

His father recognized it and said, “It is my sonís robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

After a long time Judahís wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

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.”

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

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

And we answered, ëWe have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boyís brother is dead. He is the only one of his motherís sons left, and his father loves him.í