“Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.”
Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom — the call to lament (penthos, mourning; alalagmos, wailing) represents genuine repentance, a turning away from the superficial enjoyment that characterized worldly alignment. The transformation of gelōs (laughter) to penthe (mourning) and chara (joy) to katepheia (gloom) is not permanent gloom but the serious orientation of metanoia (repentance). Authentic return to God requires somber reckoning with one's condition.
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