Quotes about Sorrow
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- Hosea 7:14
Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
- Hosea 9:14
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Joel 1:5
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
- Amos 5:16
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
- Amos 5:17
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
- Amos 6:6
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
- Micah 1:8
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
- Nahum 2:7
And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.
- Malachi 2:13
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Matthew 2:18
They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised to life.” And the disciples were deeply grieved.
- Matthew 17:23
When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
- Matthew 19:22