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.

The LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

Fear not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me.

And I will request of the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Casting all your cares on him; for he cares for you.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;To appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Yea, 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.

Now may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded towards one another according to Christ Jesus:

Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you,

Nevertheless God, who comforts those who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

He gives power to the faint; and to those who have no might he increases strength.Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall completely fall:But those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

​Truly my soul waits for God: from him comes my salvation.He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Come unto me, all you who labor and bear heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

For whatever things were written in former times were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, so that you do not sorrow, even as others who have no hope.For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received from the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.

Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

​I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help.My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for edification, and encouragement, and comfort.

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

You tell my wanderings: put my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.

My soul melts for sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is sustained on you: because he trusts in you.

Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.

​I waited patiently for the LORD; and he turned to me, and heard my cry.He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.

Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of my distresses.

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word do I hope.My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning: I say, more than those who watch for the morning.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.And those who know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

​God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and do not rely on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.

Great peace have those that love your law: and nothing shall offend them.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.

What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried out: I hoped in your word.My eyes precede the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

For we know that if our earthly house in this dwelling place is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

You have turned for me my mourning into singing: you have put off my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness;To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you for ever.

For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has given us a new birth to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a shield to all those who trust in him.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe.

Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

My soul, wait only for God; for my expectation is from him.

The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

For which reason we do not faint; but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inner man is being renewed day by day.For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

​The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not turned aside from your law.

To appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.

There has no temptation overtaken you but such as is common to mankind: but God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted more than you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where you go, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken to you of.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?

O LORD my God, I cried out unto you, and you have healed me.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore flowed in the night, and did not cease: my soul refused to be comforted.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Unless your law had been my delights, I would then have perished in my affliction.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belongs deliverance from death.

​O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in pieces.

But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your children from the east, and gather you from the west;

Rejoice at all times.Pray without ceasing.In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

The LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

You, who have shown me great and evil troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made like grass;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will listen to you.And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

Blessed are those who mourn: for they shall be comforted.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away.

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