SCRIPTURES ON MOURNING

1. Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of
Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for
her.

2. Genesis 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of
mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother
Jacob.

3. Genesis 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and
mourned for his son many days.

4. Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but
he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into
the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

5. Genesis 50:3
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days
of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for
 him threescore and ten days.

6. Genesis 50:4
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake
unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in
your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying.

7. Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond
Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore
lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

8. Genesis 50:11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

9. Exodus 33:4
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned:
and no man did put on him his ornaments.

10. Numbers 14:39

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and
the people mourned greatly.
11. Numbers 20:29
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they
mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

12. Deuteronomy 26:14

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken
away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof
for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my
God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded
me.

13. Deuteronomy 34:8

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses
were ended.

14. 1 Samuel 15:35

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death:
nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented
that he had made Saul king over Israel.

15. 1 Samuel 16:1

And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for
Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill
thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the
Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
16. 2 Samuel 1:12
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul,
and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for
the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

17. 2 Samuel 3:31

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him,
Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn
before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

18. 2 Samuel 11:26

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was
dead, she mourned for her husband.

19. 2 Samuel 11:27

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to
his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the
thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

20. 2 Samuel 13:37

But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king
of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

21. 2 Samuel 14:2

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and
said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put
on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be
 as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

22. 2 Samuel 19:1

And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for
Absalom.

23. 2 Samuel 19:2

And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
people: for the people heard say that day how the king was
grieved for his son.

24. 1 Kings 13:29

And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid
it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to
the city, to mourn and to bury him.
1 Kings 13:28-30 (in Context) 1 Kings 13 (Whole Chapter)
25. 1 Kings 13:30
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over
him, saying, Alas, my brother!

26. 1 Kings 14:13

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of
Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found
some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of
Jeroboam.
27. 1 Kings 14:18
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his
servant Ahijah the prophet.

28. 1 Chronicles 7:22

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren
came to comfort him.

29. 2 Chronicles 35:24

His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him
in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to
Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres
of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

30. Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into
the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came
thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned
because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

31. Nehemiah 1:4

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down
and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed
before the God of heaven,
32. Nehemiah 8:9
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the
scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the
people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor
weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the
law.

33. Esther 4:3

And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment
and his decree came, there was great mourning among the
Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in
sackcloth and ashes.

34. Esther 6:12

And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted
to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

35. Esther 9:22

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the
month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from
mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of
feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts
to the poor.

36. Job 2:11

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come
upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the
 Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite:
for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn
with him and to comfort him.

37. Job 3:8

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up
their mourning

38. Job 5:11

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn
may be exalted to safety.

39. Job 14:22

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him
shall mourn.

40. Job 29:25

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the
army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

41. Job 30:28

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the
congregation.

42. Job 30:31

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice
of them that weep.
43. Psalm 30:11
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast
put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

44. Psalm 35:14

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I
bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

45. Psalm 38:6

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the
day long.

46. Psalm 42:9

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go
I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

47. Psalm 43:2

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off?
why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

48. Psalm 55:2

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and
make a noise;

49. Psalm 88:9

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
 daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

50. Proverbs 5:11

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are
consumed,