Ecclesiastes 3:4

Good News Translation

He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for dancing,

Cross References

Genesis 21:6

Sarah said, “God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me.”

2 Samuel 6:16

As the Box was being brought into the city, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and jumping around in the sacred dance, and she was disgusted with him.

Psalm 30:11

You have changed my sadness into a joyful dance; you have taken away my sorrow and surrounded me with joy.

Psalm 30:5

His anger lasts only a moment, his goodness for a lifetime. Tears may flow in the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Exodus 15:20

The prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took her tambourine, and all the women followed her, playing tambourines and dancing.

Ecclesiastes 3:5

the time for making love and the time for not making love, the time for kissing and the time for not kissing.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

When things are going well for you, be glad, and when trouble comes, just remember: God sends both happiness and trouble; you never know what is going to happen next.

Isaiah 40:1

“Comfort my people,” says our God. “Comfort them!

Isaiah 40:2

Encourage the people of Jerusalem. Tell them they have suffered long enough and their sins are now forgiven. I have punished them in full for all their sins.”

Matthew 11:17

‘We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn't dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn't cry!’

Matthew 9:15

Jesus answered, “Do you expect the guests at a wedding party to be sad as long as the bridegroom is with them? Of course not! But the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Luke 1:58

Her neighbors and relatives heard how wonderfully good the Lord had been to her, and they all rejoiced with her.

Romans 12:15

Be happy with those who are happy, weep with those who weep.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the sadness that is used by God brings a change of heart that leads to salvation—and there is no regret in that! But sadness that is merely human causes death.

James 4:9

Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom!