Matthew 5:4 - New International Version (Anglicised)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted! [Isa. 61:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Common English Bible

⁴ “Happy are people who grieve, because they will be made glad.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

Matthew 5:4 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 12:1

In that day you will say: ‘I will praise you, Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

Isaiah 25:8

he will swallow up death for ever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 30:19

People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

Isaiah 35:10

and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners,

Isaiah 66:10

‘Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her.

Isaiah 66:2

Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?’ declares the Lord. ‘These are the ones I look on with favour: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.

Ezekiel 7:16

The fugitives who escape will flee to the mountains. Like doves of the valleys, they will all moan, each for their own sins.

Ezekiel 9:4

and said to him, ‘Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.’

Zechariah 12:10

‘And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Luke 16:25

‘But Abraham replied, “Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.

Luke 6:21

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

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. 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. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.

Luke 7:50

Jesus said to the woman, ‘Your faith has saved you; go in peace.’

James 1:12

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Revelation 21:4

“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death” or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’