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20 Bible Verses About Being Sad

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  • Psalm 42:5, 42:11 and 43:5 repeat the same question, “Why, my soul, are you downcast?”, and the same answer, “Put your hope in God”.
  • Nehemiah 2:2 records King Artaxerxes noticing Nehemiah’s sad face; Nehemiah was afraid, named the cause, Jerusalem’s ruined walls, and asked to rebuild it.
  • Jesus wept at Lazarus’s tomb (John 11:35) after saying he would wake him, and in Gethsemane said his soul was “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death” (Matthew 26:38).
  • 2 Corinthians 7:10 separates godly sorrow, which brings repentance, from worldly sorrow, which brings death.
  • “Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10) was said on a holy day to people weeping at the reading of the Law.

The Bible records the sadness of faithful people and of Jesus himself, and it gives words for saying that sadness to God. Psalm 42, Psalm 13, Psalm 6, Job 3 and Lamentations 3 are spoken by people in sorrow, and Psalm 30:5 and Revelation 21:4 say that weeping will end. Nehemiah 2:2 tells of a sad face a king noticed, and John 11:35 and Matthew 26:38 show Jesus weeping and “overwhelmed with sorrow”. Two passages say what sorrow can do.…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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