James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled. ⁹ Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection. ¹⁰ Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

Luke 6:25

Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.

Proverbs 14:13

Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.

Matthew 5:4

Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted.

Job 30:31

And my harp will be for mourning, and my pipe for the voice of those weeping.

Psalm 119:67

Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.

Psalm 119:71

Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.

Psalm 119:136

Mine eyes will bring down streams of waters because they will not watch thy laws.

Psalm 126:5-6

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

Ecclesiastes 7:2-6

Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.

Isaiah 22:12-13

And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

Jeremiah 31:9

In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old men together: and I turned their mourning to joy, and I comforted them and caused them to rejoice from their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart ceased; our dance was turned to mourning.

Ezekiel 7:16

And they escaping, escaped, and they were on the mountains as doves of the valleys, all of them slain, a man for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:63

So that thou shalt remember, and thou wert ashamed, and there shall no more be to thee an opening of the mouth from the face of thy shame in my expiating for thee for all which thou didst, says the Lord Jehovah.

Zechariah 12:10-14

And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.

Luke 6:21

Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.

James 5:1-2

Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you.

Revelation 18:7-8

As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.