and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and hewn out wells, which thou didst not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which thou didst not plant; when thou shalt have eaten and be full,

Those that were full have hired themselves out for bread, and those that were hungry ceased so that the barren has given birth to seven, and she that has many children is waxed feeble.

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and blaspheme the name of my God.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Therefore thus has the Lord GOD said, Behold, my slaves shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my slaves shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my slaves shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to have an abundance; in everything and by all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

Hunger

Then they shall pass through this land, fatigued and hungry, and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves and curse their king and their God. And raising their face high,

And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry, and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied; they shall eat each man the flesh of his own arm:

Laugh

And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people.

Even in laughter, the scorner has pain in his heart, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made whole.

neither dishonest words nor foolishness nor low jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks.

Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

Mourn

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?

In that place shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

They send forth their little ones like a flock of sheep, and their children dance.

He shall enter into the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light forever.

Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travails; I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

The new wine is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh.

They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

and I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will cause sackcloth to be brought up upon all loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son and the end thereof as a bitter day.

For while they are entwined together as thorns, and while the drunkards shall be drinking, they shall be devoured as stubble full of dryness.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who did not have on a wedding garment,

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction shall come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

As much as she has glorified herself and lived deliciously, give her that much torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

General references

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