Ecclesiastes 3:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

Cross References

Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

2 Samuel 6:16

And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.

Psalm 30:11

By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

Psalm 30:5

For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Exodus 15:20

And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances.

Ecclesiastes 3:5

A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

Isaiah 40:1

Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

Isaiah 40:2

Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.

Matthew 11:17

We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

Luke 1:58

And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

Romans 12:15

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

James 4:9

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.