As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

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(A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

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10 For (A)godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas (B)worldly grief produces death.

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38 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and (A)wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

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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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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.

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(A)With weeping they shall come,
    (B)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them (C)walk by brooks of water,
    (D)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for (E)I am a father to Israel,
    and Ephraim is (F)my firstborn.

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10 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding
    than a hundred blows into a fool.

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The People Confess Their Sin

10 (A)While Ezra prayed and (B)made confession, weeping and (C)casting himself down (D)before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

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So they gathered at (A)Mizpah (B)and drew water and poured it out before the Lord (C)and fasted on that day and said there, (D)“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.

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