Religious Verses On Grieving

• Genesis 37:34-35  “Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.  All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, ‘No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.’  Thus his father wept for him.”
• ​2 Samuel 12:16-17  “David therefore sought God on behalf of the child.  And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.  And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.”
• Job 16:20  “… I pour out my tears to God.”
• Psalm 6:6  "I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.”
• Psalm 9:9  "The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble."
• Psalm 18:2  "The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold."
• Psalm 23  "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
• Psalm 30:5  "Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
• Psalm 31:9-10  “Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.  For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.”​
• Psalm 34:18 “The Lord is near to those who are discouraged; he saves those who have lost all hope.”​​
• Psalm 55:22  “Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you.”
• Psalms 71:20-21  “Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.  You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.”
• Psalm 77:2  “In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.”
• Psalm 116:8  “For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.”
• Psalm 119:28  “My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.”
• Psalm 142:2  “I pour out my lament before him.  I tell him my troubles.”
• Psalm 147:3 “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”​​
• Lamentations 3:31-33  “For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.  Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.  For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.”
• Isaiah 51:11  “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
• John 3:16  "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life."

• John 11:35  "Jesus wept.”
• John 16:22  “Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.”
• 2 Corinthians 6:10  “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.”
• John 16:22 “You are now very sad. But later I will see you, and you will be so happy that no one will be able to change the way you feel.”
• Romans 8:28. "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
• 1 Peter 5:7. ​"Give all your worries to him, because he cares for you"