James 4:9
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9 (A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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Matthew 5:4
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4 “Blessed are (A)those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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2 Corinthians 7:10-11
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10 For (A)godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas (B)worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, (C)what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
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Proverbs 14:13
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Luke 6:25
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25 “Woe to you who are full now, for (A)you shall be hungry.
“Woe to (B)you who laugh now, (C)for you shall mourn and weep.
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James 5:1-2
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Warning to the Rich
5 Come now, (A)you rich, weep and howl for the (B)miseries that are coming upon you. 2 (C)Your riches have rotted and (D)your garments are moth-eaten.
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Ezekiel 16:63
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63 that you may remember and be confounded, and (A)never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”
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Jeremiah 31:18-20
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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 (F)Is Ephraim my dear son?
(G)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
(H)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels
Psalm 119:67
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67 (A)Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
Ecclesiastes 7:2-6
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2 It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of all mankind,
and the living will (A)lay it to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter,
(B)for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5 It is (C)better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise
than to hear the song of fools.
6 (D)For as the crackling of (E)thorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of the fools;
this also is vanity.[a]
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- Ecclesiastes 7:6 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
Revelation 18:7-8
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7 (A)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
(B)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
and mourning I shall never see.’
8 For this reason her plagues will come (C)in a single day,
death and mourning and famine,
and (D)she will be burned up with fire;
for (E)mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
Ezekiel 7:16
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16 (A)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like (B)doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
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Luke 16:25
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25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that (A)you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
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Luke 6:21
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21 (A)“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.
(B)“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
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Zechariah 12:10-14
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Him Whom They Have Pierced
10 “And (A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and (B)pleas for mercy, so that, (C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, (D)they shall mourn for him, (E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 (F)On that day (G)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great (H)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land shall mourn, (I)each family[a] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of (J)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of (K)the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.
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- Zechariah 12:12 Or clan; throughout verses 12–14
Jeremiah 31:9
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Isaiah 22:12-13
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12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
(D)“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
Psalm 126:5-6
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5 (A)Those who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
6 He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.
Job 30:31
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Lamentations 5:15
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Jeremiah 31:13
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13 (A)Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old shall be merry.
(B)I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:2
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2 I (A)said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
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Psalm 119:71
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71 It is (A)good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
Psalm 119:136
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