Quotes about Mourning

to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”