James 4:9
Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Cross References
Job 30:31Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Psalms 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes.
Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?
Isaiah 22:12And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Jeremiah 31:13Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together, for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Matthew Henry on James 4:2-11
Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. ( a. d. 61.) 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… Read the whole commentary →