Psalm 90:15
Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.
Deuteronomy 2:14-16
And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years; until the end of all the generation. The men of war were destroyed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them.
Psalm 30:5
For His anger is only a moment; in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
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 40:1-2
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.
Isaiah 61:3
to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.
Isaiah 65:18-19
But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Jeremiah 31:12-13
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not pine away any more at all.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn! For they shall be comforted.
John 16:20
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.
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.