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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(A)Let your garments be always white. Let not (B)oil be lacking on your head.

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(A)Those who sow in tears
    shall reap with shouts of joy!
He who goes out weeping,
    bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
    bringing his sheaves with him.

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I am (A)weary with my (B)moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
My (C)eye wastes away because of grief;
    it grows weak because of all my foes.

(D)Depart from me, all you (E)workers of evil,
    for the Lord (F)has heard the sound of my weeping.

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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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44 Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; (A)you gave me no water for my feet, but (B)she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 (C)You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to (D)kiss my feet. 46 (E)You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

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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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Let a (A)little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,

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rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, (A)tied it around his waist. Then he (B)poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

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to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
    (A)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
(B)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
(C)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, (D)that he may be glorified.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:3 Or that he may display his beauty

17 The sacrifices of God are (A)a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

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

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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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Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
    (A)“return to me with all your heart,
(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

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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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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

You journeyed to the king with oil
    and multiplied your perfumes;
(A)you sent your envoys far off,
    and sent down even to Sheol.

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18 I (A)confess my iniquity;
    I am (B)sorry for my sin.

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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. And they called the name of that place Bochim.[a] And they sacrificed there to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 2:5 Bochim means weepers

62 And he went out and wept bitterly.

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