MOURNING

Passages on this topic · 106

• Genesis 23:2

  Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

• Genesis 37:29

  Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 38:14

  She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

• Genesis 44:13

  Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

• Genesis 50:1

  Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

• Genesis 50:2

  Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

• Exodus 12:30

  Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

• Exodus 33:4

  When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

• Exodus 33:6

  The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

• Leviticus 10:6

  Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes; so that you don’t die, and so that he not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

• Leviticus 13:45

  “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

• Leviticus 19:28

  “‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 21:1

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;

• Leviticus 21:2

  except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,

• Leviticus 21:3

  and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

• Leviticus 21:4

  He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

• Leviticus 21:5

  “‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.

• Leviticus 21:6

  They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

• Leviticus 21:7

  “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

• Leviticus 21:8

  You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you; for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

• Leviticus 21:9

  “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

• Leviticus 21:10

  “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.

• Leviticus 21:11

  He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father, or for his mother.

• Numbers 14:6

  Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

• Numbers 19:11

  “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

• Numbers 19:12

  He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

• Numbers 19:13

  Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.

• Numbers 19:14

  “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

• Numbers 19:15

  Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

• Numbers 19:16

  “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

• Numbers 20:29

  When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

• Numbers 31:19

  “Encamp outside of the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

• Deuteronomy 14:1

  You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

• Deuteronomy 26:14

  I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

• Joshua 7:6

  Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

• Judges 11:35

  When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”

• 1 Samuel 30:4

  Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 1:2

  on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.

• 2 Samuel 1:11

  Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

• 2 Samuel 1:12

  They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

• 2 Samuel 1:17

  David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

• 2 Samuel 1:18

  (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

• 2 Samuel 1:19

  “Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

• 2 Samuel 1:20

  Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.

• 2 Samuel 1:22

  From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.

• 2 Samuel 1:23

  Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.

• 2 Samuel 1:24

  You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

• 2 Samuel 1:25

  How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.

• 2 Samuel 1:26

  I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

• 2 Samuel 1:27

  How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”

• 2 Samuel 3:31

  David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

• 2 Samuel 3:33

  The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

• 2 Samuel 3:34

  Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.

• 2 Samuel 3:35

  All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

• 2 Samuel 12:16

  David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

• 2 Samuel 13:19

  Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

• 2 Samuel 13:31

  Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

• 2 Samuel 15:30

  David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

• 2 Samuel 15:32

  When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head.

• 2 Samuel 18:33

  The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Samuel 19:4

  The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Kings 2:12

  Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

• 2 Kings 5:8

  It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

• 2 Kings 6:30

  When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

• 2 Kings 11:14

  and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

• 2 Kings 19:1

  When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 22:11

  When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

• 2 Kings 22:19

  because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 35:25

  Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

• Ezra 9:3

  When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

• Ezra 9:5

  At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

• Esther 6:12

  Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

• Job 1:20

  Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

• Job 2:12

  When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

• Isaiah 3:26

  Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

• Isaiah 20:2

  at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

• Isaiah 37:1

  When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 2:37

  You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.

• Jeremiah 7:29

  Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• Jeremiah 9:17

  Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come.

• Jeremiah 14:2

  “Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

• Jeremiah 14:3

  Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 14:4

  Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land. The plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 16:6

  Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

• Jeremiah 16:7

  neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

• Jeremiah 22:18

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’

• Jeremiah 41:5

  men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

• Ezekiel 24:17

  Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.

• Ezekiel 24:22

  You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

• Ezekiel 27:30

  and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

• Hosea 9:4

  They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.

• Micah 3:7

  The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.”

• Zechariah 12:12

  The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

• Zechariah 12:14

  all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

• Matthew 2:17

  Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

• Matthew 2:18

  “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.”

• Matthew 9:23

  When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,

• Matthew 26:65

  Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

• Acts 14:14

  But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,