James 4:9
Grieve, mourn, and cry! Let your laughter turn into sadness and your joy into gloom.
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10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Cross References
Job 30:31Therefore my harp is tuned for songs of mourning, 1 my flute for the singing of those who wail.
Psalms 119:71It is good for me that I have suffered 1 so that I would learn your statutes. 1
Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:2I said about laughter, “It is crazy,” and about pleasure, “What use is it?”
Isaiah 22:12The Lord Yahweh of hosts called on that day 1 for weeping, for mourning, for shaved heads, and the wearing of sackcloth. 1
Jeremiah 31:13Then virgins will rejoice with dancing, and young and old men will be together. 1 For I will change their mourning into celebration. I will have compassion on them and cause them to rejoice instead of sorrowing. 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 →