Quotes about Bereavement
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
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
- Ruth 1:5
“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
- 2 Samuel 1:19
When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
- 2 Samuel 11:26
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
- Psalm 35:12
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- Isaiah 24:11
Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
- Isaiah 49:20
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.
- Jeremiah 9:1
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.
- Jeremiah 9:18
“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
- Jeremiah 16:6
No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
- Jeremiah 16:7
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
- Lamentations 3:49