Quotes about Mourning
who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
- Job 3:22
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
- Job 16:15
O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
- Job 16:18
I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
- Job 29:25
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
- Job 30:31
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
- Psalm 35:14
His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
- Psalm 78:64
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
- Psalm 79:3
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:2
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 7:4
In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
- Isaiah 14:28
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- Isaiah 15:2