James 4:9
Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10Be made low in presence of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Cross References
Job 30:31Thus is attuned to mourning—my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.
Psalms 119:71It is, well for me, that I was afflicted, That I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms 126:5They who are sowing with tears, with shouting, shall reap:
Ecclesiastes 2:2Of laughter, I said, Madness! and, of mirth, What can it do?
Isaiah 22:12And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day,—for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,
Jeremiah 31:13Then shall the virgin rejoice, in the dance, And young men and elders [rejoice] together, And I will turn their mourning into gladness and will comfort them, And will 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 →