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 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess. 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 satisfied now, because you will be hungry. Woe, you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter, a heart may be sad, and the end of joy [may be] grief.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed [are] the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted.

Job 30:31

So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.

Psalm 119:71

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

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, "[It is] folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"

Ecclesiastes 7:2-6

Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding {with} sackcloth.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he [is] my firstborn."

Jeremiah 31:13

"Then [the] young woman will rejoice in [the] dancing in a ring, and [the] young men and [the] old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you [are] Yahweh my God.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.

Ezekiel 7:16

And [if] their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt.

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and {you will not open your mouth again} {because of} your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!'" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Zechariah 12:10-14

" 'I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as [one] grieves bitterly over a firstborn.

Luke 6:21

Blessed [are] those who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. Blessed [are] those who weep now, Because you will laugh.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good [things] during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad [things]. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For grief according to [the will of] God brings about a repentance [leading] to salvation, not to be regretted, but worldly grief brings about death.

James 5:1-2

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!

Revelation 18:7-8

As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her so much torment and mourning, because in her heart she said, 'I sit as a queen, and am not a widow, and I will never see mourning!'