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Later text
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
Earlier text
Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
Earlier text
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of our God's vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Earlier text
Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
Earlier text
Esther 9:22BSB
as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
OT: God can "turn mourning into gladness," give "comfort and joy instead of sorrow" (Jeremiah 31:13; Isaiah 61:1-3). Purim celebrates "sorrow turned into joy" (Esther 9:22). Woman in labor image EXTREMELY common in prophetic OT, frequently applies to coming of end-time salvation through Messiah. Day of Lord regularly portrayed as "time of distress" (Daniel 12:1; Zephaniah 1:14-15). Second Temple Judaism coined phrase "birth pains of the Messiah" for tribulation period preceding final consummation (1QH XI, 8-12; cf. Revelation 12:2-5; Brownlee).