James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! ⁹ be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; ¹⁰ be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. 'Woe to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.

Matthew 5:4

Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.

Job 30:31

And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

Psalm 119:67

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Psalm 119:71

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

Psalm 119:136

Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

Psalm 126:5-6

Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

Ecclesiastes 2:2

Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What is this it is doing?'

Ecclesiastes 7:2-6

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born is he.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.

Lamentations 5:15

Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

Ezekiel 7:16

And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:63

So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Zechariah 12:10-14

And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.

Luke 6:21

Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. 'Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

Luke 16:25

And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

James 5:1-2

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

Revelation 18:7-8

'As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;