And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.
We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.
Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.
Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.
And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief,
For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.
And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
<A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.
The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.
By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.
Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.
When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:
I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;
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