Quotes About Grief

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

But you, son of man, groan! Groan before their eyes with a broken heart and bitter grief.

You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ëWho was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëOn the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains—the ravines will be filled.