James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

Luke 6:25

"Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. "Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Matthew 5:4

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Job 30:31

My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?"

Ecclesiastes 7:2-6

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.

Ezekiel 7:16

And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:63

that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD."

Zechariah 12:10-14

"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Luke 6:21

"Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

James 5:1-2

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

Revelation 18:7-8

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.'