Grieving

More psalms for when you feel grieving

• 69Save Me, O God
• 44A Prayer for Help
• 88Darkest Lament
• 102A Prayer in Deep Distress
• 137By the Rivers of Babylon
• 43Send Out Your Light
• 41God Helps the Weak
• 77Remembering God's Wonders
• 42Longing for God
• 125Trust Like Mount Zion
• 34Taste and See That the LORD Is Good
• 71Hope in Old Age
• 131Quiet Trust in God
• 39Life Is Short

Grieving sits in the Comfort psalms — 60 of the 150 in all. See every one.

Someone in the Bible felt this too

• Job, a Righteous ManBook of JobJob loses nearly everything and says so, out loud, at length. The Bible gives grief a whole book and does not hurry it.
• The Prodigal SonLuke 15:11–32Sitting among the pigs, working out how far he has come down. Sadness that is the beginning of turning round.