James 4:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:13 : 13 Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.
  • Matt 5:4 : 4 Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
  • Jas 5:1-2 : 1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
  • Rev 18:7-8 : 7 As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow. 8 For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy. 6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
  • Zech 12:10-14 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. 11 In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 13 The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; 14 And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.
  • Lam 5:15 : 15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
  • 2 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death. 11 For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
  • Eccl 7:2-6 : 2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts. 3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better. 4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy. 5 It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish. 6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.
  • Isa 22:12-13 : 12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
  • Job 30:31 : 31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.
  • Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
  • Ps 119:71 : 71 It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
  • Jer 31:13 : 13 Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.

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  • Eccl 7:2-4
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    13Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

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    4Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

  • Rom 12:15
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    15Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

  • Luke 6:25
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    25Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

  • John 16:20
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    20Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

  • Prov 15:13
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    13A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  • Lam 5:15
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    15The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

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    9Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

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    1Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

  • Eccl 3:4
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    4A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

  • Joel 2:12
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    12But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

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    13But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.

  • Luke 6:21
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    21Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

  • Jer 9:18
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    18Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

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    7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

  • Joel 1:8
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    8Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

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  • Jer 4:8
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    8For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

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    10Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

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    30And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

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    14Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

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    40Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

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    18Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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  • Prov 12:25
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  • Prov 1:26
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