Quotes about Grief
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 37:34
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- Genesis 37:35
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
- Genesis 38:12
When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
- Genesis 44:28
Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
- Genesis 50:1
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
- Genesis 50:10
And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
- Numbers 14:39
When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
- Numbers 20:29
You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
- Deuteronomy 14:1
The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
- Deuteronomy 34:8
And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
- Judges 20:5
And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
- Judges 21:6