| James 4 9 |
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
| Ecclesiastes 7 3 |
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 2 |
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? |
| Proverbs 15 13 |
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. |
| 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. |
| Lamentations 5 15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
| Proverbs 12 25 |
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Proverbs 14 10 |
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. |
| 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. |
| Jeremiah 8 18 |
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. |
| Ecclesiastes 1 18 |
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. |
| Proverbs 17 22 |
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. |
| 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. |
| 2 Corinthians 6 10 |
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. |
| Psalms 126 5 |
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. |
| John 16 21 |
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. |
| Psalms 55 4 |
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. |
| Ecclesiastes 3 4 |
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; |
| Proverbs 28 14 |
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. |
| Hebrews 12 11 |
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. |
| Job 3 20 |
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; |
| Nehemiah 2 2 |
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, |
| Ecclesiastes 2 23 |
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. |
| 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. |
| Psalms 116 3 |
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. |
| 1 Peter 1 6 |
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: |
| Job 10 1 |
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 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 41 22 |
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. |
| Isaiah 21 3 |
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. |
| Ecclesiastes 12 5 |
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: |
| 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. |
| Psalms 143 4 |
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. |
| Proverbs 15 30 |
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat. |
| Romans 9 2 |
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. |
| Isaiah 24 4 |
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. |
| Ecclesiastes 7 6 |
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. |
| 2 Corinthians 7 10 |
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. |
| Job 6 2 |
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! |
| Psalms 38 6 |
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. |
| Ecclesiastes 7 14 |
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. |
| Proverbs 24 17 |
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: |
| Proverbs 10 28 |
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. |
| Psalms 69 20 |
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. |
| John 12 25 |
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. |
| Isaiah 47 8 |
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: |
| Psalms 2 4 |
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. |
| Psalms 6 6 |
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. |