and houses full of all manner goods which thou filledst not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, and vines and olive trees which thou planted not; and when thou hast eaten, and art full:

They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry cease so to be: insomuch that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble.

Lest I be so full, I deny thee, and say, "What fellow is the LORD?" And lest I, being constrained through poverty, fall unto stealing and foreswear the name of my God.

But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stagger because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained through strong drink. They fail in prophesying, and stumble in judgment.

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall have hunger. Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall suffer thirst. Behold, my servants shall be merry, but ye shall be confounded.

I can both cast down myself, I can also exceed. Everywhere, and in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungry: to have plenty, and to suffer need.

because thou sayest thou art rich and increased with goods, and hast need of nothing, and knowest not how thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

Hunger

If he do not this, he stumbleth and suffereth hunger. And if he suffer hunger, he is out of patience, and blasphemeth his king and his God. Then looketh he upward, and downward to the earth,

but robbeth him on the righthand, and doth famish; he eateth on the left hand and he shall not have enough. Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

Laugh

And they laughed him to scorn. For they knew that she was dead.

All these things heard the Pharisees also which were covetous. And they mocked him,

But as for me, I am a worm and no man: a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people.

The heart is sorrowful even in laughter; and the end of mirth is heaviness.

insomuch that I said unto laughter, "Thou art mad," and to mirth, "What doest thou?"

It is better to be sorry than to laugh, for when the countenance is heavy the heart is joyful.

neither filthiness, neither foolish talking, neither jestings, which are not comely: but rather giving of thanks.

Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Mourn

But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

There 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 yourselves thrust out a doors.

the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?

They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance.

But when he followeth his fathers' generation, he shall never see light any more.

With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it.

The sweet wine shall mourn, the grapes shall be weak, and all that have been merry in heart, shall sigh.

They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone.

Your high feasts will I turn to sorrow, and your songs to mourning: I will bring sackcloth upon all backs, and baldness on every head. Yea, such a mourning will I send them, as is made upon an only begotten son, and they shall have a miserable end.

For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.

Then the King came in, to visit the guests, and spied there a man which had not on a wedding garment,

For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

And as much as she glorified herself and lived wantonly, so much pour ye in for her of punishment, and sorrow, for she said in her heart, 'I sit, being a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow.'

General references

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.