Mourning

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Jesus wept.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?

For the Lord will not cast off forever. — read the full passage →

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. — read the full passage →

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. — read the full passage →

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple. — read the full passage →

He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” — read the full passage →

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. — read the full passage →

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For the Lord will not cast off forever. — read the full passage →

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.