Bible Verses About Loneliness After Loss
The specific loneliness that grief brings — the empty space where a person used to be.
The specific loneliness of grief brings an empty space that only the God of all comfort can begin to fill. He is intimately acquainted with your sorrow and promises to be a refuge during the long nights of mourning. Let His hope be the anchor that holds you steady as you search for his comfort.
Key Passages
"He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds."
"The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth."
"For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;"
"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."
"Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?"
"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation."
"Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand."
"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory."
"Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee."
"My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."
"To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;"
"To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified."
"As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem."
"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."
"I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
"And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you."
"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;"
"Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope."
"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."
"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."
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