Matthew 5:4

The Beatitudes

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. ⁴ Blessed are they that mourn! For they shall be comforted. ⁵ Blessed are the meek! For they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are

From God

Inherit the Earth

Sin

Isaiah 61:2-3

to preach the acceptable year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

Revelation 21:4

And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there will be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying out, nor will there be any more pain; for the first things passed away.

Psalm 6:1-9

To the Chief Musician, for eight-stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in Your anger, nor chasten me in the heat of Your fury.

Psalm 13:1-5

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 30:7-11

O Jehovah, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

Psalm 32:3-7

When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.

Psalm 40:1-3

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for Jehovah; and He bowed down to me, and heard my cry.

Psalm 69:29-30

But I am poor and sorrowful; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Isaiah 12:1

And in that day you shall say, O Jehovah, I will praise You; though You were angry with me, turn away Your anger, and You shall comfort me.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. And He shall take away from all the earth the rebuke of His people. For Jehovah has spoken.

Isaiah 30:19

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; He will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer you.

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 38:14-19

Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O Jehovah, I am pressed down; be surety for me.

Isaiah 51:11-12

Therefore the redeemed of Jehovah shall return and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head. Gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Isaiah 66:10

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all who mourn for her;

Jeremiah 31:9-12

They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Jeremiah 31:16-17

So says Jehovah: Hold back your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Jehovah. And they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

Ezekiel 7:16

But if their fugitives shall escape, then they shall be like doves of the valleys on the mountains, all of them mourning, each one for his iniquity.

Zechariah 12:10-1

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born.

Luke 6:21

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are full! For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! For you shall mourn and weep.

Luke 7:50

And He said to the woman, Your faith has saved you, go in peace.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.

John 16:20-22

Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

2 Corinthians 1:4-7

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 7:9-10

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Revelation 7:14-17

And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

Psalm 116:3-7

The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the pains of hell took hold on me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Ezekiel 9:4

And Jehovah said to him, Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning because of all the abominations that are done in her midst.

Luke 7:38

And she stood behind Him, weeping at His feet, and she began to wash His feet with tears and wipe them with the hair of her head. And she ardently kissed His feet and anointed them with the ointment.