James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Cross References
Job 30:31My harp also is turned to mourning, And my pipe to notes of grief.
Psalms 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms 126:5They who sow in tears Shall reap in joy.
Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is mad;” and of mirth, “What availeth it?”
Isaiah 22:12The Lord, Jehovah of hosts, calleth you this day To weeping and to lamentation, To baldness and to girding with sackcloth.
Jeremiah 31:13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, And the young men and old men together, For I will change their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and cheer 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 →