Luke 6:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe [unto you], ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν οἱ ἐμπεπλησμένοι! ὅτι πεινάσετε. Οὐαί ὑμῖν οἱ γελῶντες νῦν! ὅτι πενθήσετε καὶ κλαύσετε.

Transliteration

Ouai to you the empeplēsmenoi! hoti you shall peinasete. Ouai to you the gelōntes nyn! hoti you shall penthēsete and klausete.

Grammar Details

• *Ouai*: interjection - woe/alas
• *empeplēsmenoi*: participle, perfect passive, nominative, masculine, plural - filled ones/those who have been filled
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
• *peinasete*: verb, future active, 2nd person plural - you will hunger
• *gelōntes*: participle, present active, nominative, masculine, plural - laughing ones
• *nyn*: adverb - now
• *penthēsete*: verb, future active, 2nd person plural - you will mourn
• *klausete*: verb, future active, 2nd person plural - you will weep

Word Meanings

• *Ouai*: woe/alas/grief (expression of doom or judgment)
• *empeplēsmenoi*: filled/satisfied/full (perfect tense indicates completed state)
• *peinasete*: hunger/be hungry/starve
• *gelōntes*: laughing/rejoicing
• *penthēsete*: mourn/grieve/lament
• *klausete*: weep/cry/wail

Referenced Verses

• Isa 65:13 : 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be put to shame;
• Prov 14:13 : 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.
• Jas 4:9 : 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
• Rev 3:17 : 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:
• Rev 18:7-9 : 7 How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning. 8 Therefore {G1223} in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep {G846} and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning, 10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more;
• Deut 6:11-12 : 11 and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt eat and be full; 12 then beware lest thou forget Jehovah, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceased [to hunger]: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth.
• Job 20:5-7 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? 6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
• Job 21:11-13 : 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. 12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
• Ps 22:6-7 : 6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
• Ps 49:19 : 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.
• Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.
• Eccl 2:2 : 2 I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?
• Eccl 7:3 : 3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.
• Eccl 7:6 : 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
• Isa 8:21 : 21 And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
• Isa 9:20 : 20 And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
• Isa 21:3-4 : 3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. 4 My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
• Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
• Isa 28:7 : 7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
• Dan 5:4-6 : 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
• Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
• Nah 1:10 : 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
• Matt 22:11-13 : 11 But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding- garment: 12 and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding- garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Luke 8:53 : 53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
• Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
• Luke 13:28 : 28 There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without.
• Luke 16:14-15 : 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him. 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
• Eph 5:4 : 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
• Phil 4:12-13 : 12 I know {G2532} how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. 13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.