a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to
A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourin
Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the brideg
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will be
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King Dav
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them,
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust o