James 4:9

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

New Heart English 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 God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and 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, the Lord of hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

Jeremiah 31:13"Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and 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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