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Isaiah 54:7-8
“ For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer. (niv)
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Isaiah 26:20
Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 4 17
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. (niv)
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Psalms 126:5-6
Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. (niv)
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Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (niv)
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Psalms 103:9
He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; (niv)
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Psalms 16:11
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. (niv)
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John 16:20-22
Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. (niv)
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Psalms 63:3
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. (niv)
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Psalms 59:16
But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 7 9-2 Corinthians 7 10
yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us.Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (niv)
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Psalms 6:6-9
I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.Away from me, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer. (niv)
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Psalms 143:8
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. (niv)
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Isaiah 38:3-5
“ Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah:“ Go and tell Hezekiah,‘ This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. (niv)
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Psalms 46:5
God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. (niv)
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Psalms 36:7-9
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. (niv)
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Psalms 103:17
But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— (niv)
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Genesis 32:24
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. (niv)
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Psalms 56:8-11
Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll— are they not in your record?Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise—in God I trust and am not afraid. What can man do to me? (niv)
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Isaiah 57:15-16
For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy:“ I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me— the very people I have created. (niv)
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Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb (niv)
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Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say,“ Come!” And let the one who hears say,“ Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. (niv)
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Hosea 6:3
Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.” (niv)