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Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
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2 Corinthians 7 10-2 Corinthians 7 11
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly grief produces death.For consider how much diligence this very thing— this grieving as God wills— has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.
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Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter a heart may be sad, and joy may end in grief.
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Luke 6:25
Woe to you who are now full, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are now laughing, for you will mourn and weep.
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James 5:1-2
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.Your wealth has rotted and your clothes are moth-eaten.
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Ezekiel 16:63
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’”
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Jeremiah 31:18-20
I have surely heard Ephraim moaning,“ You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Take me back, so that I can return, for you, LORD, are my God.After my return, I felt regret; After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me, a delightful child? Whenever I speak against him, I certainly still think about him. Therefore, my inner being yearns for him; I will truly have compassion on him. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2-6
It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind, and the living should take it to heart.Grief is better than laughter, for when a face is sad, a heart may be glad.The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.It is better to listen to rebuke from a wise person than to listen to the song of fools,for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
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Ezekiel 7:16
The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountains. Like doves of the valley, all of them will moan, each over his own iniquity.
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Lamentations 5:15
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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Zechariah 12:10-14
“ Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.The land will mourn, every family by itself: the family of David’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Nathan’s house by itself and their women by themselves;the family of Levi’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself and their women by themselves;all the remaining families, every family by itself, and their women by themselves.
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Psalms 126:5-6
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.Though one goes along weeping, carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves.
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Job 30:31
My lyre is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.
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Revelation 18:7-8
As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways, give her that much torment and grief. For she says in her heart,“ I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never see grief.”For this reason her plagues will come in just one day— death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.
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Luke 6:21
Blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, because you will laugh.
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Luke 16:25
“‘ Son,’ Abraham said,‘ remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
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Isaiah 22:12-13
On that day the Lord GOD of Armies called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.But look: joy and gladness, butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats, eating of meat, and drinking of wine—“ Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
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Jeremiah 31:9
They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation. I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said about laughter,“ It is madness,” and about pleasure,“ What does this accomplish?”
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Jeremiah 31:13
Then the young women will rejoice with dancing, while young and old men rejoice together. I will turn their mourning into joy, give them consolation, and bring happiness out of grief.
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Psalms 119:71
It was good for me to be afflicted so that I could learn your statutes.
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Psalms 119:136
My eyes pour out streams of tears because people do not follow your instruction.
