Quotes About Grief

So we said to my lord, ëThe boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.í

When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

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

So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boyís life,

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.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.

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 Joseph fell upon his fatherís face, wept over him, and kissed him.

taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaohís court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that

Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

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

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his motherís womb.”

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.

The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

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.

Siseraís mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ëWhy is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?í

As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”