Psalms 6:1-
9 [[To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.]] O LORD,
rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ... The LORD
hath heard my supplication; the LORD
will receive my prayer.
Psalms 13:1-
5 [[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]]
How long wilt thou
forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long
wilt thou hide thy face from me? ...
But I have trusted in thy mercy;
my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms 30:7-
11 LORD,
by thy favour
thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [
and] I was troubled. ... Thou hast
turned for me my mourning into
dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and
girded me with gladness;
Psalms 32:3-
7 When I kept silence, my
bones waxed old through my
roaring all the day long. ... Thou [
art]
my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt
compass me about with
songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psalms 40:1-
3 [[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]]
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he
inclined unto me, and heard my cry. ...
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [
even]
praise unto our God:
many shall see [
it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
Psalms 69:29-
30 But
I [am] poor and sorrowful:
let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. ...
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will
magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 116:3-
7 The
sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell
gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. ... Return unto
thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath
dealt bountifully with thee.
Psalms 126:5-
6 They
that sow in tears shall reap in
joy. ... He
that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [
with him].
Isaiah 12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:
though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from
off all faces; and the
rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [
it].
Isaiah 30:19 For the people shall
dwell in Zion at Jerusalem:
thou shalt weep no more:
he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
Isaiah 35:10 And
the ransomed of the LORD shall return,
and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 38:14-
19 Like
a crane [
or] a swallow, so did I chatter:
I did mourn as a dove:
mine eyes fail [
with looking] upward: O LORD,
I am oppressed;
undertake for me. ... The living,
the living, he shall praise thee, as I [
do] this day:
the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 51:11-
12 Therefore
the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy [
shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy;
[and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away. ... I, [
even]
I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [
art] thou,
that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [
that] shall die, and of the son of
man [which] shall be made [
as] grass;
Isaiah 57:18 I
have seen his ways, and
will heal him: I
will lead him also, and
restore comforts unto him and
to his mourners.
Isaiah 61:2-
3 To proclaim
the acceptable year of the LORD,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all that mourn; ... To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes,
the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD,
that he might be glorified.
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her,
all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye
that mourn for her:
Jeremiah 31:9-
12 They shall
come with weeping, and with
supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters
in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble:
for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim [
is] my firstborn. ...
Therefore they shall come and sing in
the height of Zion,
and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for
wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd:
and their soul shall be as a watered garden;
and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Jeremiah 31:16-
17 Thus saith the LORD;
Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears:
for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy. ... And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Ezekiel 7:16 But
they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains
like doves of the valleys, all of them
mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and
set a mark upon the foreheads of the men
that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Zechariah 12:10-
14 And
I will pour upon
the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and
of supplications: and
they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and
they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for [
his] only [
son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [
his] firstborn. ... All the families that remain, every family apart,
and their wives apart.
Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to
the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for
uncleanness.
Luke 6:21 Blessed [
are ye] that hunger now:
for ye shall be filled. Blessed [
are ye] that weep now: for
ye shall laugh.
Luke 6:25 Woe unto you that are
full! for ye shall
hunger. Woe unto you that
laugh now! for ye shall
mourn and weep.
Luke 7:38 And stood at his feet behind [
him]
weeping, and began to
wash his feet with tears, and did wipe [
them] with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet,
and anointed [
them] with the ointment.
Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman,
Thy faith hath saved thee;
go in peace.
Luke 16:25 But Abraham said,
Son,
remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst
thy good things, and
likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
John 16:20-
22 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
That ye shall weep and lament,
but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but
your sorrow shall be turned into joy. ... And
ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again,
and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
2 Corinthians 1:4-
7 Who
comforteth us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. ... And
our hope of you [
is] stedfast, knowing, that
as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [
shall ye be] also of the consolation.
2 Corinthians 7:9-
10 Now
I rejoice, not
that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry
after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. ... For godly sorrow worketh
repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but
the sorrow of the world worketh death.
James 1:12 Blessed [
is]
the man that endureth temptation: for
when he is tried, he shall receive
the crown of life,
which the Lord hath promised to
them that love him.
Revelation 7:14-
17 And I said unto him, Sir,
thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which
came out of great tribulation,
and have washed their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb. ... For the Lamb which is
in the midst of the throne shall
feed them, and
shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Revelation 21:4 And
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be
no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away.