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, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

Luke 6:25

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

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Matthew 5:4

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

Job 30:31

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Psalm 119:67

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

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

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 should take this to heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

Jeremiah 31:9

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

Jeremiah 31:13

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

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Lamentations 5:15

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

Ezekiel 7:16

But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:63

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.

Zechariah 12:10-14

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Luke 6:21

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

Luke 16:25

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which 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 on you.

Revelation 18:7-8

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'