TSK · Ecclesiastes 7:3

Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

Then I will reply,‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here.

“When that time comes,” says the LORD,“the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the LORD their God.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.

“I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, so that you were not harmed in any way by us.

Joy in Trials My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,