Mourning
The expression of grief over loss, legitimized and honored throughout Scripture. Ecclesiastes 3:4 affirms 'a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.' Jesus pronounced, 'Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted' (Matthew 5:4). Ancient mourning practices included weeping, tearing garments, wearing sackcloth, and sitting in ashes (Genesis 37:34, Job 2:12-13). The psalms of lament (Psalms 13, 22, 42, 88) model honest grief before God. Jesus himself mourned (John 11:35, Luke 19:41). Romans 12:15 instructs, 'Mourn with those who mourn.' Revelation 21:4 promises a day when God 'will wipe every tear from their eyes.'
Verses about Mourning
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Kejadian 23:2
And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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Kejadian 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at …
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Kejadian 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
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Kejadian 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my…
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Kejadian 50:3
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and te…
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Kejadian 50:4
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray yo…
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Kejadian 50:10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mou…
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Kejadian 50:11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians:…
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Keluaran 33:4
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
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Bilangan 14:39
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
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Bilangan 20:29
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
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Ulangan 26:14
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I hav…
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Ulangan 34:8
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
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1 Samuel 15:35
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul kin…
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1 Samuel 16:1
And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and…
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2 Samuel 1:12
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; b…
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2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king Da…
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2 Samuel 11:26
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
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2 Samuel 11:27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had do…
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2 Samuel 13:37
But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.