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


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Proverbs 14 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Ecclesiastes 7 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
John 16 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Lamentations 5 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Psalms 31 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 126 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ecclesiastes 3 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Psalms 38 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Proverbs 15 13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
John 16 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Isaiah 65 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Exodus 22 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Matthew 5 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Ezekiel 24 23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Psalms 30 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Proverbs 17 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Psalms 55 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Job 6 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Ecclesiastes 2 2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
Job 16 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Luke 6 25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Job 6 14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Psalms 31 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 25 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Jeremiah 10 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Luke 6 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
Job 30 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Lamentations 1 22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
2 Corinthians 2 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Lamentations 1 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
2 Corinthians 12 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Proverbs 24 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Amos 5 16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Amos 8 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Isaiah 49 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Psalms 55 2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Psalms 116 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Proverbs 15 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Psalms 90 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Psalms 88 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Job 41 22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Psalms 70 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
Ecclesiastes 1 18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Isaiah 53 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
1 Corinthians 7 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
Lamentations 1 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
1 Peter 1 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Job 3 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Isaiah 1 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.