Sorrow to Joy
You have turned my sorrow
into joyful dancing.
No longer am I sad
and wearing sackcloth. ~ Psalm 30:11 (CEV)
When one of them discovered that he was healed, he came back, shouting praises to God. ~ Luke 17:15 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
God turns sorrows into joys.
PRAYER:
God, with you I realize that my sadness does not have to last forever. You turn sorrow into joy. You lift my spirit with the thought that there is an end ahead. The darkness will not win. Your eternal healing will win out. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
NRSVue = New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (© 2021 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.) NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)
REB = Revised English Bible (© 1989 Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press) TCEB = The Casual English Bible (© Stephen M. Miller)