James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded. ⁹ Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Cast down yourselves before the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

Luke 6:25

Woe be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Woe be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wail, and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

The heart is sorrowful even in laughter; and the end of mirth is heaviness.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Job 30:31

my harp is turned to sorrow, and my pipe to weeping.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was troubled, I went wrong, but now I keep thy word.

Psalm 119:71

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

Psalm 119:136

Mine eyes gush out with water, because men keep not thy law.

Psalm 126:5-6

They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

insomuch that I said unto laughter, "Thou art mad," and to mirth, "What doest thou?"

Ecclesiastes 7:2-6

It is better to go into a house of mourning, than into a banquet house: For there is the end of all men, and he that is living taketh it to heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

Jeremiah 31:9

They departed from hence in heaviness, but with joy will I bring them hither again. I will lead them by the rivers of water in a straight way, where they shall not stumble: For I will be Israel's father, and Ephraim shall be my firstborn.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the maid rejoice in the dance, yea both young and old folks. For I will turn their sorrow into gladness, and will comfort them and make them joyful, even from their hearts.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

Moreover, I heard Ephraim, that was led away captive, complain on this manner, 'O LORD, thou hast corrected me, and thy chastening have I received, as an untamed calf. Convert thou me, and I shall be converted, for thou art my LORD God.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart is gone, our merry query is turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 7:16

"And such as escape and flee from among them, shall be upon the hills, like as the doves in the field: every one shall be afraid, because of his own wickedness.

Ezekiel 16:63

That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"

Zechariah 12:10-14

Moreover, upon the house of David and upon the citizens of Jerusalem, will I pour out the spirit of grace and prayer, so that they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall beweep him, as men mourn for their only begotten son: Yea, and be sorry for him, as men are sorry for their first child

Luke 6:21

Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be satisfied. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said unto him, 'Son remember, that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy pleasure, and contrariwise, Lazarus pain. Now therefore is he comforted, and thou art punished.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For ye sorrowed godly: so that in nothing were ye hurt by us. For godly sorrow causeth repentance, unto salvation not to be repented of: when worldly sorrow causeth death.

James 5:1-2

Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.

Revelation 18:7-8

And as much as she glorified herself and lived wantonly, so much pour ye in for her of punishment, and sorrow, for she said in her heart, 'I sit, being a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow.'