Human Experience
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
Jesus wept.
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.