Quotes About Grief

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.

He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ëWhat is the matter with you?í”

When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

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

And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

Then Naomiís husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,

both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud

would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

“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?”

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.

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.

Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his fatherís shameful treatment of David.

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.

When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.