'Grieving' in the Bible
So the LORD said, "I will annihilate these human beings whom I've created from the earth, including people, animals, crawling things, and flying creatures, because I'm grieving that I made them."
Some years later, Shua's daughter (that is, Judah's wife) died. As Judah was grieving, he visited the shearers of his flock in Timnah, accompanied by his Adullamite friend Hirah.
Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you cry and why do you not eat? Why are you so sad and discontent? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
for ye have conspired all of you against me, and there is none uncovering mine ear about my son's covenanting with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you grieving for me, and uncovering mine ear, that my son hath raised up my servant against me, to lie in wait as at this day.'
Then King David longed to go to Absalom, for David had finished grieving over Amnon’s death.
That day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the troops because on that day the troops heard, “The king is grieving over his son.”
I went about grieving as if for my friend or brother;I was bowed down with grief,like one mourning a mother.
How they rebelled against him in the desert, grieving him in the wilderness!
"The children who are grieving at present will yet say in your hearing, "This place is too crowded for me; make room for me, so I may have a place to live.'
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You do not see it?Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’Hear this [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins] you find something you desire [to do],And you force your hired servants to work [instead of stopping all work, as the law teaches].
My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving,‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,Like an untrained calf;Bring me back that I may be restored,For You are the Lord my God.
The roads that lead to Zion are in mourning, because no one travels to the festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests are moaning. Her young women are grieving, and she is bitter.
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
“This is what the Lord God says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it: I held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.
drinking wine from bowls, anointing themselves with the choicest of oils, but not grieving on the occasion of Joseph's ruin
I will gather those of you grieving on account of the feast; they were raising against her a reproach.
When the young man heard that command, he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.
But he was stunned at this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.
She went and told those who had been with Jesus and who now were grieving and crying.
grieving most of all over his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.
as grieving yet always rejoicing;as poor yet enriching many;as having nothing yet possessing everything.
For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.
And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption.
The merchants of these things, who had been enriched through her, shall stand afar off through fear of her torment, weeping and grieving,
and cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness! for in one hour she has been made desolate.
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- Bereaved (27 instances)
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- Grieve (43 instances)
- Sorrow (310 instances)
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