James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Draw near unto God, and he will draw near unto you. Cleanse hands, sinners! Chasten hearts, double souls! ⁹ Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection; ¹⁰ Be made low in presence of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

Luke 6:25

Alas! for you, ye who are filled full now, for ye shall hunger. Alas! ye that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

Even, in laughter, the heart may be in pain, and, the latter end of gladness, be grief.

Matthew 5:4

Happy, they who mourn; for, they, shall be comforted:

Job 30:31

Thus is attuned to mourning - my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted, I myself was going astray, but, now, thy word, have I kept.

Psalm 119:71

It is, well for me, that I was afflicted, That I might learn thy statutes.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water, have run down mine eyes, because men have not kept thy law.

Psalm 126:5-6

They who are sowing with tears, with shouting, shall reap:

Ecclesiastes 2:2

Of laughter, I said, Madness! and, of mirth, What can it do?

Ecclesiastes 7:2-6

Better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of banqueting, for, that, is the end of all men, - and, the living, should take it to his heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping, shall they come in, And with supplications, will I lead them, I will bring them unto rivers of waters By a smooth way, wherein they shall not stumble, - For I have become, to Israel, a father, And as for Ephraim, my firstborn, is he!

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the virgin rejoice, in the dance, And young men and elders rejoice together, And I will turn their mourning into gladness and will comfort them, And will make them rejoice from their sorrow;

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have, heard, Ephraim bemoaning himself, Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised, Like a bullock, not broken in, Suffer me to return that I may return, For thou, art Yahweh my God.

Lamentations 5:15

Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.

Ezekiel 7:16

While they who escape of them shall escape and become on the mountains as the doves of the valleys, all of them cooing, - -each one in his punishment.

Ezekiel 16:63

To the end thou mayest remember and turn pale, and there be to thee no more, an opening of mouth, because of thy reproach,- In that I have accepted a propitiatory covering for thee as to all that thou hast done, Declareth My Lord. Yahweh.

Zechariah 12:10-14

But I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem, the spirit of favour, and of supplications, and they will look unto me, whom they have pierced, - and will wail over him, as one waileth over an only son, and will make bitter outcry over him, as one maketh bitter outcry over a firstborn.

Luke 6:21

Happy, ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Happy, ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said - Child! remember - That thou didst duly received thy good things in thy life, and, Lazarus, in like manner, the evil things; but, now, here, he is comforted, and, thou, art in anguish.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For, grief according to God, worketh, repentance unto salvation, not to be regretted; although, the grieving of the world, worketh, death.

James 5:1-2

Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you:

Revelation 18:7-8

As much as she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give, unto her, torment and grief: - because, in her heart, she saith - I sit a Queen, and, widow, am I not, and, grief, in nowise shall I see!