Top 21 Bible Verses About Lamenting

Lamenting is the act of grieving or feeling deep regret. The Bible refers to lamenting quite a bit. Here are the top 21 Bible verses about lamenting to study and find encouragement during times when you may be lamenting a loss of a loved one or whatever has given you grief and sorrow.

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And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.

- Luke 23:27

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“I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.

- Jeremiah 9:10

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When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

- Genesis 50:10

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This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

- Ezekiel 32:16

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And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

- Esther 4:3

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“Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

- Ezekiel 28:12

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“For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD.

- Jeremiah 16:5

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Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

- Isaiah 53:4-6

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Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

- Psalm 31:9-10

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But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

- 1 Thessalonians 4:13

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The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

- Psalm 34:18

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

- Matthew 5:4

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

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He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

- Psalm 147:3

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

- Psalm 73:26

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Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

- Matthew 11:28-30

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He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

- Revelation 21:4

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

- 1 Peter 5:7

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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

- John 14:27

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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.

- Psalm 23:4

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

- Joshua 1:9

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