Ecclesiastes 3:4

There is a time to weep and to laugh, to mourn and to dance. Both sorrow and joy have their rightful and appointed seasons.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
• Rom 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
• Jas 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
• John 16:20–22Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
• Ps 126:1–2A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
• Luke 1:58Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
• Exod 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
• Luke 6:21–25Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
• 2 Cor 7:10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
• Matt 9:15Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
• Luke 1:13–14But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.
• 2 Sam 6:16As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
• Matt 11:17‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
• Gen 21:6Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
• Neh 8:9–12Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.
• Isa 22:12–13On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
• Neh 9:1–38On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.

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