Mourning

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; — read the full passage →

Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners. — read the full passage →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion <FI>is<Fi> God to the age.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

Jesus wept.

For--a moment <FI>is<Fi> in His anger, Life <FI>is<Fi> in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

Precious in the eyes of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the death for His saints.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

`And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

`A voice in Ramah was heard--lamentation and weeping and much mourning--Rachel weeping <FI>for<Fi> her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.'

And David lifteth up--and the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him--their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Cease to groan, <FI>for<Fi> the dead thou dost make no mourning, thy bonnet bind on thee, and thy shoes thou dost put on thy feet, and thou dost not cover over the upper lip, and bread of men thou dost not eat.'

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

This <FI>is<Fi> my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

and all the company see that Aaron hath expired, and they bewail Aaron thirty days--all the house of Israel.

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God <FI>is<Fi> my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

and they mourn, and weep, and fast till the evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel, because they have fallen by the sword.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

The heart of the wise <FI>is<Fi> in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains--he hath carried them, And we--we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou--place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?

For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. — read the full passage →

He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' --A song. God <FI>is<Fi> to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'

and Sarah dieth in Kirjath-Arba, which <FI>is<Fi> Hebron, in the land of Caanan, and Abraham goeth in to mourn for Sarah, and to bewail her.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains--he hath carried them, And we--we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted. — read the full passage →

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us-- — read the full passage →

And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come to Zion with singing, And joy age-during <FI>is<Fi> on their head, Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and sighing,

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

And Job riseth, and rendeth his robe, and shaveth his head, and falleth to the earth, and doth obeisance,

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; — read the full passage →

One <FI>thing<Fi> I asked of Jehovah--it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple. — read the full passage →

He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.

That this God <FI>is<Fi> our God--To the age and for ever, He--he doth lead us over death!

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed: — read the full passage →

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

And the sons of Israel bewail Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping <FI>and<Fi> mourning for Moses are completed.

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up--to victory; — read the full passage →

Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, `Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,

And the people hear this sad thing, and mourn; and none put his ornaments on him.

For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth.

And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, `My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And it cometh to pass, at my hearing these words, I have sat down, and I weep and mourn <FI>for<Fi> days, and I am fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

`Happy those hungering now--because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now--because ye shall laugh.

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying <FI>it<Fi> to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. — read the full passage →

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

for this <FI>is<Fi> gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;

so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

When thou passest into waters, I <FI>am<Fi> with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. — read the full passage →

To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners.

And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

And at the present of the evening I have risen from mine affliction, and at my rending my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God,

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

And the salvation of the righteous <FI>is<Fi> from Jehovah, Their strong place in a time of adversity.