'Sorrow' in the Bible

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.

Be gracious to me, Lord,because I am in distress;my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—my whole being as well.

My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

The Lord is near to the heartbrokenAnd He saves those who are crushed in spirit (contrite in heart, truly sorry for their sin).

They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.

But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

For I do confess my guilt and iniquity;I am filled with anxiety because of my sin.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

I will say to God, my rock,“Why have You forgotten me?Why must I go about in sorrowbecause of the enemy’s oppression?”

For You are the God of my refuge.Why have You rejected me?Why must I go about in sorrowbecause of the enemy’s oppression?

My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit;A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

So I say, “I am grievedthat the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

My eye grows dim with sorrow.O Lord, I have called on You every day;I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;He has shortened my days.

Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.

Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

I weep because of sorrow; fortify me according to your word.

If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.

See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.