Following Jonah into the depths

It seems to me that many people become lost in grief. Like Jonah they feel themselves swallowed up, dragged down into the depths. What can be said to such people? What can we say to ourselves when the world seems bleak?

I like a verse that someone recently reminded me of, "With God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26)

This is the truth of it, no matter how grim things might appear God waits to make restitution, to make all things new.

As it says in Thessalonians 1:6-7

God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.

God sees all our grief and takes account of our losses.

Psalm 10:14
But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
you consider it to take it in hand.
The victim commits himself to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.