James 4:9
Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.
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In The King James Version
In Context
10Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Cross References
Job 30:31My harp has been turned into mourning, and my pipes have been turned into a voice of weeping.
Psalms 126:5Blessed is the man who has filled his desire from these things. He will not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies at the gate.
Ecclesiastes 2:2Laughter, I considered an error. And to rejoicing, I said: “Why are you being deceived, to no purpose?”
Isaiah 22:12And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.
Jeremiah 31:13Then the virgin will rejoice with singing, the young and the old together, and I will turn their mourning into gladness, and I will console them and gladden them after 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 →