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123 Verses of Comfort for the Time of Mourning
Comfort comes like a calming hug, a gentle breeze on your soul, and in the loving words of those around you. And, you know, in those really tough times, you can feel Jesus right there with you. There are people in your life who can offer comfort, holding you up when you feel like you're falling apart, reminding you of how precious you are. God's presence shines through them, like an extension of the Holy Spirit's comfort when you need it most.
It's so important to remember you're not alone in your struggles, even when the tears just won't stop. In those moments, God is reminding you that He loves you. His comfort is like the best medicine, strengthening you from the inside out, filling those deep-down empty spaces. Letting yourself be comforted is like accepting a little bit of heaven, so don't be afraid to open yourself up and let your vulnerability show.
Showing your brokenness isn't weakness. Those who mourn are blessed, finding comfort in the Almighty. So right now, let that comfort sink into your heart, lift your spirits. Even if things seem gray right now, the sun will shine again, and you'll see that even in the hard times, Jesus is right there with you. Even when you don't understand, remember that all things work together for good, according to His purpose for your life. Just like 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 says, God, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, is with us in our troubles, so that we can comfort others with the same comfort we've received. And just as everything is working for your good, you are being comforted so that you can offer comfort and show God's love to a world that really needs it.
Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not look around, for I am your Elohim. I shall fortify you, I shall also help you, I shall also uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.’
“And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever –
the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you.
Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, the Father of compassion and Elohim of all comfort,
who is comforting us in all our pressure, enabling us to comfort those who are in every pressure, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by Elohim.
And we know that all matters work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to his purpose.
The Spirit of the Master יהוה is upon Me, because יהוה has anointed Me to bring good news to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,
I greatly rejoice in יהוה, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the seed to shoot up, so the Master יהוה causes righteousness and praise to shoot up before all the nations!
to proclaim the acceptable year of יהוה, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to comfort all who mourn,
to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned.
When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
And the Elohim of endurance and encouragement give you to be of the same mind toward one another, according to Messiah יהושע,
“Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in Elohim, believe also in Me.
“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself. But the Father who stays in Me does His works.
“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, otherwise believe Me because of the works themselves.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also. And greater works than these he shall do, because I go to My Father.
“And whatever you ask in My Name, that I shall do, in order that the Father might be esteemed in the Son.
“If you ask whatever in My Name, I shall do it.
“If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.
“And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever –
the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you.
“I shall not leave you orphans – I am coming to you.
“Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees Me, but you shall see Me, because I live, and you shall live.
“In My Father’s house are many staying places. And if not, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
“In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
“He who possesses My commands and guards them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him.”
Yehuḏah – not the one from Qerioth – said to Him, “Master, what has come about that You are about to manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
יהושע answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he shall guard My Word. And My Father shall love him, and We shall come to him and make Our stay with him.
“He who does not love Me does not guard My Words. And the Word which you hear is not Mine but of the Father Who sent Me.
“These Words I have spoken to you while still with you.
“But the Helper, the Set-apart Spirit, whom the Father shall send in My Name, He shall teach you all, and remind you of all that I said to you.
“Peace I leave with you – My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
“You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you did love Me, you would have rejoiced that I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.
“And now I have told you before it takes place, that when it does take place, you shall believe.
“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I shall come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, you might be too.
Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, the Father of compassion and Elohim of all comfort,
Let your way of life be without the love of silver, and be satisfied with what you have. For He Himself has said, “I shall never leave you nor forsake you,”
being empowered with all power, according to the might of His esteem, for all endurance and patience with joy,
He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of יהוה; make straight in the desert a highway for our Elohim.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men stumble and fall,
but those who wait on יהוה renew their strength, they raise up the wing like eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint.
My being finds rest in Elohim alone; From Him is my deliverance.
Do not trust in oppression. And do not become vain in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.
Elohim has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That strength belongs to Elohim.
And loving-commitment is Yours, O יהוה; For You reward each one according to his work.
He alone is my rock and my deliverance, my strong tower; I am not greatly shaken.
And our Master יהושע Messiah Himself, and our Elohim and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good expectation, through favour,
encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
to proclaim the acceptable year of יהוה, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to comfort all who mourn,
Do not worry at all, but in every matter, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.
And the peace of Elohim, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds through Messiah יהושע.
And the Elohim of expectation fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you overflow with expectation by the power of the Set-apart Spirit.
My flesh and my heart shall waste away, But Elohim is the rock of my heart And my portion forever.
Why are you depressed, O my being? And why are you restless within me? Wait for Elohim: for I shall yet thank Him, the deliverance of my face, And my Elohim.
“And when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth, who comes from the Father, He shall bear witness of Me,
“For יהוה shall comfort Tsiyon, He shall comfort all her waste places. For He makes her wilderness like Ěḏen, and her desert like the garden of יהוה. Joy and gladness are found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
“Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you rest.
“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your beings
and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
“For My yoke is gentle and My burden is light.”
Please let Your loving-commitment be for my comfort, According to Your word to Your servant.
For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have the expectation.
“As one whom his mother comforts, so I comfort you. And in Yerushalayim you are comforted.”
Now, brothers, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you be sad as others who have no expectation.
For if we believe that יהושע died and rose again, so also Elohim shall bring with Him those who sleep in יהושע.
“Comfort, comfort My people!” says your Elohim.
See, the Master יהוה comes with strength, and His arm rules for Him. See, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.
He feeds His flock like a shepherd, He gathers the lambs with His arm, and carries them in His bosom, gently leading those who are with young.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured the heavens with a span, and contained the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Who has meted out the Spirit of יהוה, or as His counsellor taught Him?
With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of right-ruling? Who taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?
See, nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the balance. See, He lifts up isles as fine dust.
And Leḇanon is not enough to burn, nor its beasts enough for an ascending offering.
All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.
And to whom would you liken Ěl? And what likeness would you compare to Him?
The workman moulds a graven image, and the goldsmith overspreads it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains.
“Speak to the heart of Yerushalayim, and cry out to her, that her hard service is completed, that her crookedness is pardoned, that she has received from the hand of יהוה double for all her sins.”
who is comforting us in all our pressure, enabling us to comfort those who are in every pressure, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by Elohim.
I lift up my eyes to the hills; Where does my help come from?
My help comes from יהוה, Maker of the heavens and earth.
For Elohim has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control.
And our Master יהושע Messiah Himself, and our Elohim and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good expectation, through favour,
You have counted my wanderings; You put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?
And in that day you shall say, “I thank You יהוה, though You were enraged with me, Your displeasure has turned back, and You have comforted me.
Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
I waited, waited for יהוה; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry.
I did not conceal Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your trustworthiness and Your deliverance; I did not hide Your loving-commitment and Your truth From the great assembly.
Do not withhold Your compassion from me, O יהוה; Let Your loving-commitment and Your truth always watch over me.
For evils without number have surrounded me; My crookednesses have overtaken me, And I have been unable to see; They became more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me.
Be pleased, O יהוה, to deliver me; O יהוה, hasten to help me!
Let those who seek to destroy my life Be ashamed and abashed altogether; Let those who are desiring my evil Be driven back and put to shame.
Let those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” Be appalled at their own shame.
Let all those who seek You Rejoice and be glad in You; Let those who love Your deliverance always say, “יהוה be exalted!”
But I am poor and needy; Let יהוה think upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my Elohim, do not delay!
And He drew me Out of the pit of destruction, Out of the muddy clay, And He set my feet upon a rock, He is establishing my steps.
Then He put a new song in my mouth; Praise to our Elohim; Many do see it and fear, And trust in יהוה.
See, I speak a secret to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Let us hold fast the confession of our expectation without yielding, for He who promised is trustworthy.
I looked to יהוה, My being has looked, And for His word I have waited.
My being looks to יהוה More than those watching for morning, watching for morning.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the esteem that is to be revealed in us.
For thus declares the high and exalted One who dwells forever, whose Name is set-apart, “I dwell in the high and set-apart place, with him who has a bruised and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of bruised ones.
Elohim is our refuge and strength, A help in distress, soon found.
Be still, and know that I am Elohim; I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth!
יהוה of hosts is with us; The Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ is our refuge. Selah.
Therefore we do not fear, Though the earth reels And mountains topple into the heart of the seas.
teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Amĕn.
“When you pass through the waters, I am with you; and through rivers, they do not overflow you. When you walk through fire, you are not scorched, and a flame does not burn you.
Trust in יהוה with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
Know Him in all your ways, And He makes all your paths straight.
“These words I have spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you have pressure, but take courage, I have overcome the world.”
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
יהוה is my rock and my stronghold and my deliverer; My Ěl is my rock, I take refuge in Him; My shield and the horn of my deliverance, my high tower.
Though I walk in the midst of distress, You revive me; You stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand saves me.
I rise before dawn, and cry for help; I have waited for Your word.
My eyes have gone before the night watches, To study Your word.
For we know that if the tent of our earthly house is destroyed, we have a building from Elohim, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.
יהוה guards you from all evil; He guards your being.
יהוה guards your going out and your coming in Now and forever.
You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
So that esteem might praise You and not be silent. O יהוה my Elohim, I thank You forever.
For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin.
Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of favour, in order to receive compassion, and find favour for timely help.
When I said, “My foot has slipped,” Your loving-commitment, O יהוה, supported me.
When anxiety was great within me, Your comforts delighted my being.
Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who according to His great compassion has caused us to be born again to a living expectation through the resurrection of יהושע Messiah from the dead,
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in the heavens for you,
being persuaded of this, that He who has begun a good work in you shall perfect it until the day of יהושע Messiah.
Cast your burden on יהוה, And let Him sustain you; He never allows the righteous to be shaken.
“The Ěl – His way is perfect; The Word of יהוה is proven; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
Teach me to do Your good pleasure, For You are my Elohim. Let Your good Spirit lead me In the land of straightness.
Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day.
For this slight momentary pressure is working for us a far more exceeding and everlasting weight of esteem.
We are not looking on what is seen, but on what is not seen. For what is seen passes away, but what is not seen is everlasting.
to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned.
No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it.
“And see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go, and shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of Elohim which is in Messiah יהושע our Master.
And my Elohim shall fill all your need according to His riches in esteem by Messiah יהושע.
Bless יהוה, O my being, And do not forget all His dealings,
Bless יהוה, you His messengers, Mighty in power, who do His Word, Listening to the voice of His Word.
Bless יהוה, all you His hosts, You His servants, who do His pleasure.
Bless יהוה, all His works, In all places of His rule. Bless יהוה, O my being!
Who forgives all your crookednesses, Who heals all your diseases,
Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with loving-commitment and compassion,
In the day of my distress I sought יהוה; My hand was stretched out in the night And it did not cease, My being refused to be comforted.
The Spirit of the Master יהוה is upon Me, because יהוה has anointed Me to bring good news to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,
O יהוה, You have searched me And know me.
There, too, Your hand would lead me, And Your right hand hold me.
If I say, “Darkness shall cover me,” Then night would be light to me;
Even darkness is not dark for You, But night shines as the day – As is darkness, so is light.
For You, You possessed my kidneys, You have covered me in my mother’s womb.
I give thanks to You, For I am awesomely and wondrously made! Wondrous are Your works, And my being knows it well.
My bones were not concealed from You, When I was shaped in a hidden place, Knit together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body. And in Your book all of them were written, The days they were formed, While none was among them.
And how precious are Your thoughts to me, O Ěl! How great has been the sum of them!
If I should count them, They would be more than the sand; When I wake up, I am still with You.
Oh, that You would kill the wrong, O Eloah! Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed!
You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar.
By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.
“What gain is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Would dust praise You? Would it declare Your truth?
And they cried out to יהוה in their distress, And He saved them out of their troubles.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And He broke their chains in pieces.
I love יהוה, because He has heard my voice, my pleas.
I have believed, for I speak; I have been greatly afflicted.
I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
What shall I return to יהוה? All His bounties are upon me.
I lift up the cup of deliverance, And call upon the Name of יהוה.
I pay my vows to יהוה Now in the presence of all His people.
Precious in the eyes of יהוה Is the death of His lovingly-committed ones.
O יהוה, I am truly Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant; You have loosed my bonds.
I slaughter You a slaughtering of thanksgiving, And call upon the Name of יהוה.
I pay my vows to יהוה In the presence of all His people,
In the courts of the House of יהוה, In your midst, O Yerushalayim. Praise Yah!
Because He has inclined His ear to me, And I shall call throughout my days.
“Do not fear, for I am with you. I shall bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.
Rejoice always,
pray without ceasing,
in all circumstances give thanks, for this is the desire of Elohim in Messiah יהושע for you.
“Peace I leave with you – My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
For His displeasure is for a moment, His delight is for life; Weeping might last for the night, But joy comes in the morning.
Qoph יהוה is near to the broken-hearted, And saves those whose spirit is crushed.
Rĕsh Many are the evils of the righteous, But יהוה delivers him out of them all.
You who have shown me great and evil distresses, Revive me again and bring me up again From the depths of the earth.
You increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side.
Also with the lyre I praise You For Your trustworthiness, O my Elohim! I sing to You with the lyre, O Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.
“I, I am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid of man that dies, and of the son of man who is made like grass?
For I know the plans I am planning for you,’ declares יהוה, ‘plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy.
Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you.
And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
Because, as the sufferings of Messiah overflow in us, so our comfort also overflows through Messiah.
And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, “See, the Booth of Elohim is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.
“And Elohim shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying. And there shall be no more pain, for the former matters have passed away.”