James 4:9

Subject Yourselves To God

⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people! ⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Draw Near to God

Let There Be

O God

Sin

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.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter a heart may be sad,
and joy may end in grief.

Matthew 5:4

Those who mourn are blessed,
for they will be comforted.

Job 30:31

My lyre is used for mourning
and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep Your word.

Psalm 119:71

It was good for me to be afflicted
so that I could learn Your statutes.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes pour out streams of tears
because people do not follow Your instruction.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who sow in tears
will reap with shouts of joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said about laughter, “It is madness,” and about pleasure, “What does this accomplish?”

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.

Isaiah 22:12-13

On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.

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.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then the young woman 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.

Jeremiah 31:18-20

I have heard Ephraim moaning,
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.
Restore me, and I will return,
for you, Lord, are my God.

Lamentations 5:15

Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.

Ezekiel 7:16

The survivors among them will escape
and live on the mountains
like doves of the valley,
all of them moaning,
each over his own iniquity.

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.

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.

Luke 6:21

You who are now hungry are blessed,
because you will be filled.
You who now weep are blessed,
because you will laugh.

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.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11

For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

James 5:1-2

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

Revelation 18:7-8

As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
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.”