James 4:9
Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
Luke 6:25
Alas for you who are sated now, for you will hunger. Alas for you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.
Luke 6:21
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Luke 16:25
'Child,' answered Abraham, 'remember that you in your lifetime received what you thought desirable, just as Lazarus received what was not desirable; but now he has his consolation here, while you are suffering agony.
2 Corinthians 7:10-11
For, when sorrow is in accordance with God's will, it results in a repentance leading to Salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is Death.
James 5:1-2
Listen to me, you rich men, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming upon you!
Revelation 18:7-8
for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says 'I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I shall never know misery.'