James 4:9
Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;
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In Context
10be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.
Cross References
Job 30:31And my harp becomes mourning, || And my pipe the sound of weeping.”
Psalms 119:71[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted, || That I might learn Your statutes.
Psalms 126:5Those sowing in tears, reap with singing,
Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter I said, “Foolish!” And of mirth, “What [is] this it is doing?”
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord calls, YHWH of Hosts, || In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, || And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
Jeremiah 31:13“Then a virgin rejoices in a chorus, || Both young men and old men—together, || And I have turned their mourning to joy, || And have comforted them, || And gladdened them above 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 →