Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Afflicted
Bible References
Afflicted
James 5:1
Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you!
Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Luke 6:21
"Blessed are you who are hungry now, For you shall be filled. "Blessed are you who are wailing now, For you shall laugh.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the world's pain works death.
Let
Luke 6:25
"Woe unto you who are full now! For you shall suffer hunger. "Woe to you who are laughing now! For you shall wail and weep.
Luke 16:25
"'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.
Revelation 18:7
By so much as she glorified herself and waxed wanton, By so much give her of torture and tears, For she says in her heart, 'I sit here a queen, I am no widow. I shall in no wise see mourning.'