heaviness
36 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
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,
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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.
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
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.
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,
A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that liveth dishonestly is her father’s heaviness.
Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he will bring thee to heaviness.
Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.
A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience will recompense him.
Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.
For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.
For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.
Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the last end.
Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness,
For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy priests are in heaviness, and brought low.
Rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed thence with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.
KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)
So all they that were then moved at the word of the Lord God of Israel assembled unto me, whilst I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.
I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have sinned before the Lord your God, and done that thing that is evil before him.
Be not weary: for when the day of trouble and heaviness cometh, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but thou shalt be merry and have abundance.
For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sore?
And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?
And therefore shake off thy great heaviness, and put away the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful unto thee again, and the Highest shall give thee rest and ease from thy labour.
For they that were not left were in heaviness.
OT Pseudepigrapha
THEN Adam and Eve stood up in the cave and prayed the whole of that night until the morning dawned. And when the sun was risen they both went out of the cave; their heads wandering from heaviness of sorrow, and they not knowing whither they went.