Grief imagery uses mourning, tears, bitterness of soul, broken heart, or lament language to picture sorrow, repentance, bereavement, suffering, and the need for divine comfort.
Grief imagery uses mourning, tears, bitterness of soul, broken heart, or lament language to picture sorrow, repentance, bereavement, suffering, and the need for divine comfort.
A lament-and-contrition motif in which grief, mourning, tears, bitterness, brokenheartedness, or a contrite spirit signifies covenant sorrow, personal loss, repentant humility, messianic suffering, or the comfort God gives to mourners.
These examples show how Grief, Mourning, Tears, and Broken-Heart Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
he mourned for his son many days
Jacob’s mourning language portrays deep bereavement and family grief.
in bitterness of soul
Bitterness-of-soul imagery gives inward texture to Hannah’s distress before the LORD.
O my son Absalom
David’s lamenting cry gives grief a repeated, personal voice.
I water my couch with my tears
Tear imagery intensifies the psalmist’s distress and prayer for mercy.
nigh unto them that are of a broken heart
Broken-heart imagery identifies the crushed and humble as objects of divine nearness.
a broken and a contrite heart
Contrite-heart imagery presents repentance as inwardly broken before God.
a time to weep
Weeping imagery acknowledges grief as part of life under God’s appointed seasons.
a man of sorrows
Sorrow imagery characterizes the suffering Servant’s rejected and grief-bearing mission.
mine eye runneth down with water
Tear imagery personifies Zion’s desolation and covenant grief.
Blessed are they that mourn
Mourning becomes the posture of those who receive promised divine comfort.
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