James 4:9
"Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness."
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- Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 7:10
"For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death."
Read in chapter → - Luke 6:25
"Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 14:13
"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness."
Read in chapter → - James 5:1
"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 119:67
"Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 7:2
"It is 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 lay it to his heart."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 31:18
"I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 16:63
"That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD."
Read in chapter → - Revelation 18:7
"How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow."
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