Psalm 90:15
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, according to the years wherein we have seen evil.
Deuteronomy 2:14-16
Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.
Psalm 30:5
For a moment is passed in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.
Psalm 126:5-6
They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing:
Isaiah 12:1
And in that day thou shalt say, Jehovah, I will praise thee; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
Isaiah 40:1-2
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isaiah 61:3
to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.
Isaiah 65:18-19
But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Jeremiah 31:12-13
And they shall come and sing aloud upon the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for corn, and for new wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not languish any more at all.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
John 16:20
Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.
Revelation 7:14-17
And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.