James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones. ⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Be humbled before the Lord, and He will lift you up.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

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Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are full! For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! For you shall mourn and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

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

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they that mourn! For they shall be comforted.

Job 30:31

And my lyre has turned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of weeping.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, so that I might learn Your Precepts.

Psalm 119:136

Rivers of water run down my eyes, because they do not keep Your Law.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, It is madness; 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 Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

Jeremiah 31:9

They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Jeremiah 31:13

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

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 7:16

But if their fugitives shall escape, then they shall be like doves of the valleys on the mountains, all of them mourning, each one for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:63

so that you may remember and be ashamed; and it will not be possible to open your mouth any more because of your shame; in that I am propitiated for all that you have done, says the Lord Jehovah.

Zechariah 12:10-14

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born.

Luke 6:21

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.

James 5:1-2

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.

Revelation 18:7-8

As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all.