Ecclesiastes 7:6

The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.

The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

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

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!

But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;