Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

Your riches have decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept Your word.

[It is] good for me that You have afflicted me; that I might learn Your statutes.

My eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not Your law.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exaltation, bringing their sheaves [with them].

[It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the banquet house. Since this is the end of every man, and the living man will apply good [warning] to his heart.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;

but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for You [are] the Lord my God.

Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.

But they that escape among them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains, and I will slay all [the rest], everyone for his iniquities.

that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon Me, because they have mocked Me, and they shall make lamentation for Him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

And the land shall lament in separate families, the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

all the families that are left, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, without regret; but worldly sorrow produces death.

For behold this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner, how much diligence it produced in you, even an eagerness to defend, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In all things you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in this matter.

My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.

Grief mingles not with mirth, and joy in the end comes to grief.

I said to laughter- Madness! And to mirth, Why do you do this?

As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools. This is also vanity.

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

Woe to you who have been filled, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.'

"On account of this her plagues will come in one day--death, sorrow, and famine. And she shall be burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who has judged her.