Luke 6:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μακάριοι οἱ πεινῶντες νῦν: ὅτι χορτασθήσεσθε. Μακάριοι οἱ κλαίοντες νῦν: ὅτι γελάσετε.

Transliteration

Makarioi the peinōntes nyn: hoti you shall be chortasthēsesthe. Makarioi the klaiontes nyn: hoti you shall gelasete.

Grammar Details

• *Makarioi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - blessed/happy
• *peinōntes*: participle, present active, nominative, masculine, plural - hungering ones
• *nyn*: adverb - now
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
• *chortasthēsesthe*: verb, future passive, 2nd person plural - you will be filled/satisfied
• *klaiontes*: participle, present active, nominative, masculine, plural - weeping ones
• *gelasete*: verb, future active, 2nd person plural - you will laugh

Word Meanings

• *Makarioi*: blessed/happy/fortunate
• *peinōntes*: hungering/being hungry
• *chortasthēsesthe*: be filled/satisfied/fed to fullness
• *klaiontes*: weeping/crying/lamenting
• *gelasete*: laugh/rejoice

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:4 : 4 `Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.
• Matt 5:6 : 6 `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.
• Jas 1:12 : 12 Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.
• Isa 55:1-2 : 1 Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk. 2 Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.
• Luke 1:53 : 53 The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,
• Luke 6:25 : 25 `Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.
• 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,
• Isa 61:1-3 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah `is' on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands. 2 To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners. 3 To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'
• Isa 30:19 : 19 For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.
• Ps 17:15 : 15 I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, `with' Thy form!
• John 6:35 : 35 And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;
• Jer 31:9 : 9 With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is' he.
• Jer 31:13-14 : 13 Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow, 14 And satisfied the soul of the priests `with' fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.
• Rev 7:16 : 16 they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat,
• Rev 21:3 : 3 and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God `is' with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,
• Isa 57:17-18 : 17 For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart. 18 His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.
• 1 Pet 1:6-8 : 6 in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, 7 that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,
• Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God. 19 For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth. 20 A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.
• Jer 31:25 : 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, And every grieved soul I have filled.'
• Ezek 7:16 : 16 And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.
• Ezek 9:4 : 4 And He calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and Jehovah saith unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'
• John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'
• John 7:37-38 : 37 And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink; 38 he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
• John 11:35 : 35 Jesus wept.
• John 16:20-21 : 20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become. 21 `The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.
• Rom 9:1-3 : 1 Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart -- 3 for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,
• 2 Cor 1:4-6 : 4 who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God; 5 because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort; 6 and whether we be in tribulation, `it is' for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, `it is' for your comfort and salvation;
• 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
• 2 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death, 11 for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.
• 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
• 2 Cor 12:10 : 10 wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;
• Jas 1:2-4 : 2 All joy count `it', my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; 3 knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance, 4 and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
• Ps 28:7 : 7 Jehovah `is' my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.
• Ps 30:11-12 : 11 Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me `with' joy. 12 So that honour doth praise Thee, and is not silent, O Jehovah, my God, to the age I thank Thee!
• Ps 42:1-3 : 1 To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God? 3 My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where `is' thy God?'
• Ps 63:1-5 : 1 A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou `art' my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters. 2 So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour. 3 Because better `is' Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee. 4 So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands. 5 As `with' milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And `with' singing lips doth my mouth praise.
• Ps 65:4 : 4 O the happiness of `him whom' Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple.
• Ps 107:9 : 9 For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled `with' goodness.
• Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!
• Ps 126:1-2 : 1 A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back `to' the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers. 2 Then filled `with' laughter is our mouth, And our tongue `with' singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'
• Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap, 6 Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!
• Ps 143:6 : 6 I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul `is' as a weary land for Thee. Selah.
• Eccl 7:2-3 : 2 Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart. 3 Better `is' sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.
• Isa 12:1-2 : 1 And thou hast said in that day: `I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me. 2 Lo, God `is' my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song `is' Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.
• Isa 25:6 : 6 And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
• Isa 44:3-4 : 3 For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring. 4 And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water.
• Isa 49:9-9 : 9 To say to the bound, Go out, To those in darkness, Be uncovered. On the ways they feed, And in all high places is their pasture. 10 They do not hunger, nor thirst, Nor smite them doth mirage and sun, For He who is pitying them doth lead them, And by fountains of waters doth tend them.
• Gen 17:17 : 17 And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'
• Gen 21:6 : 6 and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'
• Ps 6:6-8 : 6 I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night `on' my bed, With my tear my couch I waste. 7 Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries, 8 Turn from me all ye workers of iniquity, For Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping,
• Isa 65:13-14 : 13 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed, 14 Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.
• Isa 66:10 : 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, And be glad in her, all ye loving her, Rejoice ye with her for joy, All ye are mourning for her,
• Jer 9:1 : 1 Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
• Jer 13:17 : 17 And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.