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Bible Verses About Sorrow
Find Bible verses about sorrow — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about sorrow?
The Bible addresses sorrow with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
2 Corinthians 7:10
“For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.”
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Lamentations 1:12
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:3
“Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.”
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Ecclesiastes 1:18
“For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.”
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Psalms 119:28
“My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.”
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John 16:20
“Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.”
Ezekiel 23:33
“You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.”
John 16:6
“But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.”
Romans 9:2
“that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.”
Psalms 31:10
“For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.”
Mark 14:34
“He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."”
Isaiah 65:14
“behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.”
Psalms 90:10
“The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.”
John 16:21
“A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the w...”
Job 16:16
“My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.”
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Psalms 13:2 — “How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my ene...”
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