"Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness."
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Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;