Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart s
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and e
And they laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead.
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but s
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of G
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not sat
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddle
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the na
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accum
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. In any and every situation I have learned the secret of being fille
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyar