Luke 6:25

Happiness And Sorrow

²⁴ "But how terrible it will be for you who are rich, because you have had your comfort! ²⁵ How terrible it will be for you who are full now, because you will be hungry! How terrible it will be for you who are laughing now, because you will mourn and cry! ²⁶ "How terrible it will be for you when everyone says nice things about you, because that's the way their ancestors used to treat the false prophets!"

Woe to You

Weep And Wail

Luke

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "See, my servants will eat, but you'll go hungry; my servants will drink, but you'll go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you'll be put to shame.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter there may be heartache, and at the end of joy there may be grief.

James 4:9

Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.

Deuteronomy 6:11-12

houses filled with every good thing that you didn't supply, wells that you didn't dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you didn't plant. When you eat and are satisfied,

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who had an abundance of bread now hire themselves out, and those who were hungry hunger no more. While the barren woman gives birth to seven children, she who had many children languishes.

Job 20:5-7

The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary.

Job 21:11-13

They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about,

Psalm 22:6-7

But as for me, I am only a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by people.

Psalm 49:19

you will end up like your ancestors' generation, never again to see the light of day!

Proverbs 30:9

so that I don't become overfed and deny you by saying, "Who is the LORD?" or so that I don't become poor and steal, and then misuse the name of my God.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

"Senseless," said I concerning laughter and pleasure, "How practical is this?"

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter, because the heart is made better through trouble.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For as thorns burn to heat a pot, so also is the laughter of the fool even this is pointless.

Isaiah 8:21

"They'll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they'll become enraged, and they'll curse their king and their god. They'll turn their faces upwards,

Isaiah 9:20

They cut meat on the right, but they're still hungry, and they devour also on the left, but they're not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own children.

Isaiah 21:3-4

Therefore my body is racked with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am so upset that I cannot hear; I am so frightened that I cannot see while I'm reeling around.

Isaiah 24:7-12

The new wine evaporates; the vine and the oil dry up; all the merrymakers groan.

Isaiah 28:7

These people also stagger from wine and reel from strong drink. Priests and prophets stagger from strong drink; they're drunk from wine; they reel from strong drink, waver when seeing visions, and stumble when rendering decisions.

Daniel 5:4-6

As they drank the wine, they praised gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all of your songs to dirges. I will cause all of you to put on sackcloth and to shave all of your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son, and its conclusion will be like the end of a bitter day."

Nahum 1:10

Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush, while drunken as by a strong drink, the Ninevites will be burned like dry straw.

Matthew 22:11-13

"When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

Luke 8:53

They laughed and laughed at him, because they knew she was dead.

Luke 12:20

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

Luke 13:28

In that place there will be crying and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside.

Luke 16:14-15

Now the Pharisees, who love money, had been listening to all this and began to ridicule Jesus.

Ephesians 5:4

Obscene, flippant, or vulgar talk is totally inappropriate. Instead, let there be thanksgiving.

Philippians 4:12-13

I know how to be humble, and I know how to prosper. In each and every situation I have learned the secret of being full and of going hungry, of having too much and of having too little.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, "There is peace and security," destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.

Revelation 3:17

You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Revelation 18:7-11

Just as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, inflict on her just as much torture and misery. In her heart she says, "I am a queen on a throne, not a widow. I will never see misery.'