Losing a parent reshapes the ground under you. These verses are for that particular kind of loss.
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“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
Psalm 27:10 (KJV)
“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”
John 14:18 (KJV)“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”
Psalm 73:26 (KJV)Psalm 27:10 names something specific — the loss of the people who were supposed to be there your whole life — and answers it directly, not with a generic comfort, but with the promise of being taken up. Grieving a parent often comes with a strange sense of being suddenly unanchored, even as an adult. That ache is real, and it's named in Scripture, not glossed over.