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Bible Verses About Lament

Bringing your raw, unfiltered pain to God.

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Bringing your raw and unfiltered pain to the Father is a sacred and necessary part of the human experience. While the weight of grief can feel like an endless ocean, you do not have to navigate its dark depths alone. God is intimately present in your sorrow, catching every tear and promising an eventually season of healing and restoration. Allow His peace to be your anchor as you honestly pour out your heart before the One who understands your suffering.

Key Passages

"He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it."

"For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."

"Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."

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"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

"¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;"

"Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?"

"I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears."

"How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?"

"The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles."

"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were."

"Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses."

"Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses."

"The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow."

"For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains."

"They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble."

"Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit."

"Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble."

"Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble."

"Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city."

"O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!"

"And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand."

"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows."

"When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,"

"For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:"

"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;"

"Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;"

"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?"

"O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent."

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