James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
In Context
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
Cross References
Job 30:31Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Psalms 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.
Psalms 126:5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth 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 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 →