Words of Wisdom
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Ezra 9:5, 6
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 9:27, 28
Reproach hath 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. Psalm 69:20
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Psalm 119:28
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Proverbs 10:1
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Proverbs 12:25
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. Proverbs 14:13
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. Isaiah 29:2
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto 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. Isaiah 61:3
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. Romans 9:2
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2 Corinthians 2:1
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. Philippians 2:26
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. James 4:9
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 1 Peter 1:6
