James 4:9
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9 (A)Lament 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 (A)Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
2 Corinthians 7:10-11
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10 For (A)godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; (B)but the sorrow of the world produces death. 11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what (C)clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be (D)clear in this matter.
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Proverbs 14:13
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13 Even in laughter the heart may sorrow,
And (A)the end of mirth may be grief.
Luke 6:25
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25 (A)Woe to you who are full,
For you shall hunger.
(B)Woe to you who laugh now,
For you shall mourn and (C)weep.
Ezekiel 16:63
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63 that you may (A)remember and be ashamed, (B)and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord God.’ ”
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Jeremiah 31:18-20
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18 “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:
‘You have (A)chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained bull;
(B)Restore me, and I will return,
For You are the Lord my God.
19 Surely, (C)after my turning, I repented;
And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh;
I was (D)ashamed, yes, even humiliated,
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
20 Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For though I spoke against him,
I earnestly remember him still;
(E)Therefore My [a]heart yearns for him;
(F)I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:20 Lit. inward parts
Psalm 119:67
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67 Before I was (A)afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.
Ecclesiastes 7:2-6
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2 Better to go to the house of mourning
Than to go to the house of feasting,
For that is the end of all men;
And the living will take it to (A)heart.
3 [a]Sorrow is better than laughter,
(B)For by a sad countenance the heart is made [b]better.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5 (C)It is better to [c]hear the rebuke of the wise
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
6 (D)For like the [d]crackling of thorns under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool.
This also is vanity.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 7:3 Vexation or Grief
- Ecclesiastes 7:3 well or pleasing
- Ecclesiastes 7:5 listen to
- Ecclesiastes 7:6 Lit. sound
Revelation 18:7-8
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7 (A)In the measure that she glorified herself and lived [a]luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as (B)queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ 8 Therefore her plagues will come (C)in one day—death and mourning and famine. And (D)she will be utterly burned with fire, (E)for strong is the Lord God who [b]judges her.
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- Revelation 18:7 sensually
- Revelation 18:8 NU, M has judged
Ezekiel 7:16
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16 ‘Those who (A)survive will escape and be on the mountains
Like doves of the valleys,
All of them mourning,
Each for his iniquity.
Luke 16:25
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25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, (A)remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.
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Zechariah 12:10-14
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Mourning for the Pierced One
10 (A)“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will (B)look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him (C)as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. 11 In that day there shall be a great (D)mourning in Jerusalem, (E)like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of [a]Megiddo. 12 (F)And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of (G)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 Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
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- Zechariah 12:11 Heb. Megiddon
Lamentations 5:15
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15 The joy of our heart has ceased;
Our dance has turned into (A)mourning.
Jeremiah 31:9
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9 (A)They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk (B)by the rivers of waters,
In a straight way in which they shall not stumble;
For I am a Father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My (C)firstborn.
Isaiah 22:12-13
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12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
(A)Called for weeping and for mourning,
(B)For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and (C)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 in joy.
6 He who continually goes [a]forth weeping,
Bearing [b]seed for sowing,
Shall doubtless come again [c]with (B)rejoicing,
Bringing his sheaves with him.
Footnotes
- Psalm 126:6 to and fro
- Psalm 126:6 Lit. a bag of seed for sowing
- Psalm 126:6 with shouts of joy
Job 30:31
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31 My harp is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the voice of those who weep.
Jeremiah 31:13
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13 “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
And the young men and the old, together;
For I will turn their mourning to joy,
Will comfort them,
And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:2
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2 I said of laughter—“Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
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Psalm 119:136
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136 (A)Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your law.
Psalm 119:71
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71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes.
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