Hard times
Grief
Grief is love with a lump in the throat. God's people are allowed to weep, and they are promised comfort.
1. Jeremiah 9:17
“Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come.”
2. 2 Samuel 19:2
“The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.””
3. Isaiah 33:9
“The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.”
4. Deuteronomy 34:8
“The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.”
5. Psalms 39:12
““Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.”
6. Jeremiah 9:1
“Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!”
7. Ezekiel 27:31
“They will make themselves bald for you, and clothe themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.”
8. Mark 2:21
“No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.”
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Say it
Practice Jeremiah 9:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehofsays,“Consider,andcallforthemourningwomen,thattheymaycome;andsendforthewomen,theymaycome.