James 4:9

Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!

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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. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillators!

10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:71It was good for me to be humbled, that I should learn your statutes.

Psalms 126:5They who sow in tears shall reap with glad shouts.

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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