James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look. ¹⁰ Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are filled now, because ye will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, because ye will mourn and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, because they will be comforted.

Job 30:31

Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I observe thy word.

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?

Ecclesiastes 7:2-6

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.

Isaiah 22:12-13

And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.

Jeremiah 31:9

They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together, for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 7:16

But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:63

that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou have done, says lord LORD.

Zechariah 12:10-14

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look to me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him, as [a man] mourns for his only

Luke 6:21

Blessed are those who hunger now, because ye will be filled. Blessed are those who weep now, because ye will laugh.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.

James 5:1-2

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

Revelation 18:7-8

In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.