James 4:9
Show some remorse, cry and weep! Turn your laughter into mourning, and your joy to sadness.
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10Be humble before the Lord and he will lift you up.
Cross References
Job 30:31My lyre only plays sad songs, and my pipe is the voice of those who weep.
Psalms 119:71The suffering I went through was good for me, so I could think about what you have stipulated.
Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy!
Ecclesiastes 2:2I conclude that laughing your way through life is stupid, and pleasure—what use is that?
Isaiah 22:12At that time the Lord, the Lord Almighty, was calling you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.
Jeremiah 31:13The girls will dance in celebration; young men and old people will join in too. I will turn their sorrow into joy, and I will comfort them and change their sadness into happiness.
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 →