Quotes About Grief

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,

So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.

A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.