Studies for Grief & loss

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.

They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

“Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.

“Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.