Luke 6:25

Happiness And Sorrow

²⁴ Woe to you who are rich! You have received your reward. ²⁵ Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. ²⁶ Woe to you when all men speak well of you! Their fathers did the same to the prophets.

Woe to You

Weep And Wail

Luke

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: My servants will eat, but you will go hungry. My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame!

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart has pain; and joy may end in grief.

James 4:9

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

Deuteronomy 6:11-12

The houses will be full of good things that you did not put in them. There will be wells that you did not dig. There will be vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Jehovah will bring you into this land and you will have all you want to eat.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for food. The hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven. She who has had many sons has languished.

Job 20:5-7

The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Job 21:11-13

They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.

Psalm 22:6-7

Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people.

Psalm 49:19

He must join the generation of his ancestors who will never see light again.

Proverbs 30:9

If I am full I could deny you and say, Who is Jehovah? Or if I am poor and steal, I could take God's name in vain.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter: It is madness. And of pleasure: What does it do?

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness the appearance of the heart is made better.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through the land when they are hard-pressed (destressed) and hungry. When they are hungry, they will be furious. Then they will look up and curse their king and God.

Isaiah 9:20

They slice off what is on the right hand, but they will still be hungry. In the end they will even eat the flesh of their own arms (offspring) (turn upon themselves).

Isaiah 21:3-4

What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor.

Isaiah 24:7-12

The new wine mourns, the vine decays and the merry-hearted sigh.

Isaiah 28:7

These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions.

Daniel 5:4-6

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

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.

Nahum 1:10

Entangled like thorns and drunken from drink, they are consumed like dry stubble.

Matthew 22:11-13

When the king met the guests he found that one of them was not wearing the right kind of clothes for the wedding.

Luke 8:53

They laughed him to scorn knowing that she was dead.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

Luke 13:28

You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!

Luke 16:14-15

Hearing this the Pharisees made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

Ephesians 5:4

Nor should there be filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting but rather giving of thanks.

Philippians 4:12-13

I know how to be poor. I also know how to live with abundance. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have abundance and to suffer need.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.

Revelation 3:17

You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Revelation 18:7-11

To the extent she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to that extent give her much torment and sorrow. She says in her heart: 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see no sorrow.'