Bible Verses for Grief After a Miscarriage
A miscarriage is the loss of a future you were already loving. Scripture honors the unborn as known to God from the womb (Psalm 139), which means your grief is not over an idea but a person. You are allowed to mourn deeply. God mourns with you.
Pray this
Pray: 'Father, you knew my child before I did. Hold them close. Hold me close. Carry both of us today.'
"For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well."
"Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit."
"But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you."
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more."
Frequently asked questions
- Scripture doesn't address it as a doctrine, but David's words after losing his infant son — 'I will go to him' (2 Samuel 12:23) — have comforted believers for centuries with the hope of reunion.