Luke 1:58

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

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

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,