Matthew 5:4

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Matthew 5:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 and He began to teach them, saying:

3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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

5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

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Psalms 6:1

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

Psalms 6:2

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

Psalms 6:3

My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?

Psalms 6:4

Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.

Psalms 6:5

For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

Psalms 6:6

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Psalms 6:7

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Psalms 6:8

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

Psalms 6:9

The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.

Psalms 13:1

How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalms 13:2

How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?

Psalms 13:3

Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

Psalms 13:4

lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.

Psalms 13:5

But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.

Psalms 30:7

O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

Psalms 30:8

To You, O LORD, I called, and I begged my Lord for mercy:

Psalms 30:9

“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

Psalms 30:10

Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”

Psalms 30:11

You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalms 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Psalms 32:5

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

Psalms 32:6

Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.

Psalms 32:7

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

Psalms 40:1

I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

Psalms 40:2

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalms 40:3

He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.

Psalms 69:29

But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

Psalms 69:30

I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

Psalms 116:3

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

Psalms 116:4

Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”

Psalms 116:5

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

Psalms 116:6

The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.

Psalms 116:7

Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.

Psalms 126:5

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

Psalms 126:6

He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

Isaiah 12:1

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 30:19

O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.

Isaiah 35:10

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Isaiah 38:14

I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

Isaiah 38:15

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38:16

O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

Isaiah 38:17

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:19

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 51:11

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

Isaiah 61:3

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Isaiah 66:10

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

Jeremiah 31:10

Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.

Jeremiah 31:11

For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.

Jeremiah 31:12

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

Jeremiah 31:16

This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

Jeremiah 31:17

So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

Ezekiel 7:16

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Ezekiel 9:4

“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”

Zechariah 12:10

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Zechariah 12:11

On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Zechariah 12:12

The land will mourn, each clan on its own: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives,

Zechariah 12:13

the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,

Zechariah 12:14

and all the remaining clans and their wives.

Zechariah 13:1

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

Luke 6:21

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

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Luke 7:38

As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.

Luke 7:50

And Jesus told the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Luke 16:25

But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

John 16:21

A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

John 16:22

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

2 Corinthians 1:4

who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

2 Corinthians 1:5

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

2 Corinthians 1:7

And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

2 Corinthians 7:9

And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.

2 Corinthians 7:10

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

Revelation 7:14

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:15

For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

Revelation 7:16

‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

Revelation 7:17

For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

Revelation 21:4

‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”