Our PAIN:
Psalm 6:7 My eye wastes away because of grief
Psalm 31:9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief;
my soul and my body also.
Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart may ache,
and the end of joy may be grief.
Jeremiah 8:18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;
my heart is sick within me.
Job 30:31 My lyre is turned to mourning,
and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Psalm 38:6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.
Psalm 44:19 yet you have broken us in the place of jackals
and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalm 55:4 My heart is in anguish within me;
the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.
James 4:9 Be wretched and mourn and weep.
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Our HOPE:
Lamentations 3:32 but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love
Isaiah 53:4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows…
Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old shall be merry.
I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.
2 Chronicles 25:4 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”
Psalm 68:20 Our God is a God of salvation,
and to GOD, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
Psalm 23:4 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.
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
is the death of his saints.
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.