Bible verses about Lament
Verses that give words to grief and honest crying out to God.
How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
Psalms 13:2Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Psalms 13:3I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
Psalms 22:2Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
Psalms 22:11I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
Psalms 42:9“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
Psalms 77:7In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 77:2For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
Psalms 88:3My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
Psalms 88:9Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
Lamentations 1:12I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
Lamentations 3:1“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
Job 3:3Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Jeremiah 20:14Jesus wept.
John 11:35How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
Habakkuk 1:2I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalms 6:6My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
Psalms 55:4About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Matthew 27:46