Luke 6:21

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Luke 6:21

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Summary

Luke 6:21

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

Ye that hunger

For ye shall be

Ye that weep

Ye shall laugh

Isaiah 65:14

General references

Matthew 5:4

Bible References

Ye that hunger

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

He has satisfied the hungry with good things
and sent the rich away empty.

BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.

I spread out my hands to You;
I am like parched land before You.Selah

“Come, everyone who is thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you without money,
come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost!

Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

labor and hardship,
many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.

So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

For ye shall be

But I will see Your face in righteousness;
when I awake, I will be satisfied with Your presence.

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

How happy is the one You choose
and bring near to live in Your courts!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
the holiness of Your temple.

For He has satisfied the thirsty
and filled the hungry with good things.

The Lord of Hosts will prepare a feast
for all the peoples on this mountain

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a feast of aged wine, choice meat, finely aged wine.

For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants
and My blessing on your offspring.

saying to the prisoners: Come out,
and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves.
They will feed along the pathways,
and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:

My servants will eat,
but you will be hungry;
My servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty;
My servants will rejoice,
but you will be put to shame.

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,
all who love her.
Rejoice greatly with her,
all who mourn over her—

I will refresh the priests with an abundance,

and My people will be satisfied with My goodness.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed,

for they will be filled.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me

and drink!

They will no longer hunger;
they will no longer thirst;
the sun will no longer strike them,
nor will any heat.

Ye that weep

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

I am weary from my groaning;
with my tears I dampen my pillow
and drench my bed every night.

My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”

My eyes pour out streams of tears
because people do not follow Your instruction.

Those who sow in tears
will reap with shouts of joy.

It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
since that is the end of all mankind,
and the living should take it to heart.

For you people will live on Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you.

Because of his sinful greed I was angry,
so I struck him; I was angry and hid;
but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.

The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me,
because the Lord has anointed Me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners;

If my head were a spring of water,

my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear people.

But if you will not listen,
my innermost being will weep in secret
because of your pride.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

They will come weeping,
but I will bring them back with consolation.

I will lead them to wadis filled with water
by a smooth way where they will not stumble,
for I am Israel’s Father,
and Ephraim is My firstborn.

The survivors among them will escape
and live on the mountains
like doves of the valley,
all of them moaning,
each over his own iniquity.

“Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the Lord said to him, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.”

Those who mourn are blessed,

for they will be comforted.

Jesus wept.

“I assure you: You will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit—

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

as grieving yet always rejoicing;
as poor yet enriching many;
as having nothing yet possessing everything.

For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials,

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

Then I heard a loud voice from the throne:

Look! God’s dwelling is with humanity,
and He will live with them.
They will be His people,
and God Himself will be with them
and be their God.

Ye shall laugh

Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.
Therefore my heart rejoices,
and I praise Him with my song.

You turned my lament into dancing;
You removed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,

A song of ascents.When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.

On that day you will say:
“I will praise You, Lord,
although You were angry with me.
Your anger has turned away,
and You have had compassion on me.

My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,
but you will cry out from an anguished heart,
and you will lament out of a broken spirit.

General references

Those who mourn are blessed,

for they will be comforted.