Ezra 3:12-13
12But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, aold men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, 13so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.Psalms 126:4-6
4 Restore our fortunes, O Lord,like streams in the Negeb!
5 bThose who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
6He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.
Jeremiah 31:9-10
9 cWith weeping they shall come,dand with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them ewalk by brooks of water,
fin a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for gI am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is hmy firstborn.
10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will igather him,
and will keep him jas a shepherd keeps his flock.’
Joel 2:12
Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,k“return to me with all your heart,
lwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Zechariah 12:10
Him Whom They Have Pierced
10“And mI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and npleas for mercy, so that, owhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, pthey shall mourn for him, qas one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.James 4:9
9 rBe wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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