All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they …

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and …

Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither …

I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—

when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by …

a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land …

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”

Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there …