James 4:9

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

World Messianic Bible British

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. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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Cross References

Job 30:31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Psalms 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

Isaiah 22:12In that day, the Lord, GOD of Hosts, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Jeremiah 31:13Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from 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 →

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