Psalm 126:5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy.

Cross References

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Joel 2:17

Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep. Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Joel 2:23

O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.

Matthew 5:4

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

Galatians 6:9

So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.