Nehemiah 1:4
1:4 When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Job 2:11
The Visit of Job’s Friends
2:11 When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country – Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.
Psalms 35:13-14
35:13 When they were sick, I wore sackcloth,
and refrained from eating food.
(If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!)
35:14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother.
I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.
Jeremiah 9:1
9:1 (8:23) I wish that my head were a well full of water
and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!
If they were, I could cry day and night
for those of my dear people who have been killed.
John 11:19
11:19 so many of the Jewish people of the region
had come to Martha and Mary to console them
over the loss of their brother.)
John 11:33-36
11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people
who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved
in spirit and greatly distressed.
11:34 He asked,
“Where have you laid him?”
They replied,
“Lord, come and see.”
11:35 Jesus wept.
11:36 Thus the people who had come to mourn
said, “Look how much he loved him!”
John 11:2
11:2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil
and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Colossians 1:29
1:29 Toward this goal
I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully
works in me.
Philippians 2:26
2:26 Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.
Hebrews 13:3
13:3 Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them,
and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.