Ecclesiastes 3:4

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Time to weep, and time to laugh; time to bewail, and time to dance.

Cross References

Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, The Lord hath made laughing to me, and whoever shall hear shall laugh with me.

2 Samuel 6:16

And when the ark of the Lord had entered into the city of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, beheld by a window, and she saw the king skipping or hopping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

Psalm 30:11

Thou hast turned my wailing into joy to me; thou hast rent my sack-cloth, and hast encompassed me with gladness.

Psalm 30:5

For ire is in his indignation; and life is in his will. Weeping shall dwell at eventide; and gladness at the morrowtide.

Exodus 15:20

Therefore Marie, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tympan in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tympans and companies;

Ecclesiastes 3:5

Time to scatter stones, and time to gather together; time to embrace, and time to be far from embracings, or embraces.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In a good day use thou goods, and before eschew thou an evil day; for God made so this day as that day, that a man find not just complainings against him.

Isaiah 40:1

My people, be ye comforted, be ye comforted, saith your Lord God.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak ye to the heart of Jeru-salem, and call ye [to] it, for the malice thereof is [ful] filled, the wickedness thereof is forgiven; it hath received of the hand of the Lord double things for all his sins.

Matthew 11:17

and say, We have sung to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wailed.

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, Whether the sons of the spouse may mourn [or wail] as long as the spouse is with them? But days shall come, when the spouse shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Luke 1:58

And the neighbours and the cousins of her heard, that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her; and they thanked him [or they together joyed to her].

Romans 12:15

for to joy with men that joy, for to weep with men that weep.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the sorrow that is after God, worketh penance into steadfast health; but sorrow of the world worketh death.

James 4:9

Be ye wretches, and wail ye [or weep ye]; your laughing be turned into weeping, and [your] joy into sorrow of heart.