James 4:9

Genuine repentance involves grief over sin, not careless laughter. Mourning rightly precedes the joy God gives.

Cross-references · 23

• Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
• 2 Cor 7:10–11For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
• Luke 6:25Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
• Prov 14:13Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
• Jas 5:1–2Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
• Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Eccl 7:2–6It 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 should take this to heart.
• Ezek 16:63that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
• Rev 18:7–8However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
• Ezek 7:16But those of those who escape will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
• Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
• Job 30:31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
• Lam 5:15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
• Zech 12:10–14I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
• Isa 22:12–13In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
• Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Luke 6:21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
• Jer 31:13Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
• Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
• Eccl 2:2I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
• Ps 119:136Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law. TZADI

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