If you’ve ever lost someone, you know how hard the grieving process can be.
Maybe you’ve lost a child to sin or perhaps through a miscarriage.
Maybe you’ve lost a parent. They left earth way too early.
Perhaps you’re a single mom like me, having lost her husband and whole world all in one day.
Maybe you’ve lost a job or an opportunity for a promotion you really wanted passed you by.
Maybe you’ve recently lost a friend, who turned her back on you for no good reason or perhaps she believed a lie about you and left.
Maybe this marks the anniversary of a long-time pet you’ve lost and you still remember all the wonderful times you had together.
Whatever your loss is, whether big or small, it’s a big deal. It’s a big deal to you and it’s a big deal to God, who cares deeply about you.
When Jesus walked the earth, He experienced loss too. I think the most gut-wrenching has to be the loss of Judas.
We know Judas is a bad guy and so did God, but to be betrayed by your own disciple. After spending all that time with him, training him, wanting the best for him, loving him, caring about him, meeting his needs, to just be betrayed in the end, and for what? Money! Money was definitely something Jesus never worried about. It had to be difficult for Him to go through. It had to be painful. He doesn’t want anyone to perish (2 Peter 3:9).
David knew that type of grief too. He says in Psalm 55:12-14, it would be okay if it were an enemy who taunts him, but this was his very close companion, an equal.
Suffering loss is hard and it hurts, but thankfully we can turn to Scripture to heal our pain and help walk us through the grieving process.
God is close to those who are brokenhearted (Psalm 34:18), so while it’s not something we pray for, being brokenhearted comes with fruit, with joy. We get to be close to our Heavenly Father, who wraps His loving arms around us and hides us in the shadow of His wings just at the moment we need it.
These 30 grief Bible verses will not only show you that others have grieved too and that you’re not alone in your pain, but that thee’s an amazing Comforter waiting to hold your hand and see you through it!
30 Grief Bible Verses
1) Matthew 5:4
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
2) Psalm 147:3
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
3) 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
“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. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.”
4) 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
“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.”
5) Psalm 30:5
“For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.”
6) Isaiah 53:4
“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.”
7) Luke 6:21
“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.”
8) Lamentations 3:31-32
“For the Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;”
9) John 16:22
“So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.”
10) Psalm 34:17-18
“When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”
11) Nehemiah 8:10
“And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
12) Isaiah 25:8
“He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.”
13) John 16:20
“Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.”
14) Psalm 31:9-10
“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.”
15) Revelation 21:4
“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.”
16) Romans 8:18
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
17) John 14:1
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.”
18) Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
19) Psalm 18:2
“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
20) Ecclesiastes 7:4
“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”
21) Psalm 119:28
“My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!”
22) Romans 15:13
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
23) Psalm 6:6-9
“I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping. My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes. Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer.“
24) Psalm 27:5
“For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.”
25) Psalm 22:24
“For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.”
26) 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
27) Psalm 73:26
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
28) Matthew 11:28-30
29) Nahum 1:7
“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.”
30) Psalm 19:14
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.”
