James 4:9

Lament and mourn and weep. Let the tzechok (laughter) of you be changed to avelut (mourning), and the simcha of you be turned to tugah (sadness).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Hashem and Hashem will draw near to you. Cleanse your yadayim (hands), you chote'im (sinners)! And purify your levavot, you anashim of double mind! + 4:8 Ps 73:28; Zech 1:3; Mal 3:7; Isa 1:16; Ps 24:4; 119:113; Jer 4:14

10Be humbled before Hashem and He will exalt you. + 4:10 Job 5:11

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Cross References

Job 30:31My kinnor (harp) also is turned to evel (mourning), 1 and my flute into the voice of them that weep.

Psalms 119:71It is tov for me that I have been afflicted 1 l'ma'an (in order that) I might learn Thy chukkim. 1

Psalms 126:5They that sow in dimah (tears) 1 shall reap in rinnah (joyful song). 1

Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, It is mad; and of simchah, What doeth it accomplish?

Isaiah 22:12And in that day did Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os 1 call to weeping, and to wailing, 1 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 1

Jeremiah 31:13And I will satisfy the nefesh of the Kohanim with deshen (fatness, abundance) 1 and My people shall be sated with My Tuv (Bounty, Goodness), saith Hashem. 1

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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