James 4:9

Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

In Context

8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.

10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.

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Cross References

Job 30:31My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.

Psalms 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

Psalms 126:5They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing:

Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it?

Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

Jeremiah 31:13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into gladness, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice 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 →

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