Job 30:31
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
BSB
ASV
Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
KJV
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
My harp also is turned to mourning - What formerly gave cheerful sounds, now gives only notes of plaintiveness and lamentation. The harp was probably an instrument originally designed to give sounds of joy. For a description of it, see the notes at Isa 5:12. And my organ - The form of what is here called the organ, is not certainly known. The word עגב ‛ûgâb is doubtless from עגב ‛âgab, “to breathe, to blow”; and most probably the instrument hero intended was the pipe. For a description of it, see the notes at Isa 5:
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Ecclesiastes 3:4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
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Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
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Lamentations 5:15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of…
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Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
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Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the…
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.