James 4:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 14:13 : 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
  • Matt 5:4 : 4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 Woe to you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.
  • Jas 5:1-2 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
  • Rev 18:7-8 : 7 As much as she has glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and sorrow: for she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore her plagues shall come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He who goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
  • Zech 12:10-14 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
  • Lam 5:15 : 15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 But those who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for his iniquity.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.
  • 2 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world produces death. 11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner, what diligence it produced in you, yes, what clearing of yourselves, yes, what indignation, yes, what fear, yes, what vehement desire, yes, what zeal, yes, what vindication! In all things you have proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
  • Eccl 7:2-6 : 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will take it to heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of laughter. 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools. 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.
  • Isa 22:12-13 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth. 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Job 30:31 : 31 My harp is also turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.
  • Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word.
  • Ps 119:71 : 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do not keep Your law.
  • Jer 31:13 : 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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