James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic). ⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the presence of God, 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 will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! You will mourn and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart has pain; and joy may end in grief.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Job 30:31

Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, and my flute to the sound 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 may learn your statutes.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of water, because they do not keep your law.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who cry while they plant will joyfully sing while they harvest.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter: It is madness. And of pleasure: 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. That is the end for all men and the living takes it to heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they will come. By supplication I will lead them. I will make them walk by streams of waters on a straight path in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then young women will rejoice and dance along with young men and old men. I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them. I will replace their sorrow with joy.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I hear the people of Israel say in grief, 'Jehovah, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back for we are ready to return to you, Jehovah our God.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

Ezekiel 7:16

Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.

Ezekiel 16:63

I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth.' The Lord Jehovah has spoken.

Zechariah 12:10-14

I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his 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

Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.

James 5:1-2

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

Revelation 18:7-8

To the extent she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to that extent give her much torment and sorrow. She says in her heart: 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see no sorrow.'