James 4:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

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  • Prov 14:13 : 13 Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy `is' affliction.
  • Matt 5:4 : 4 `Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 `Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God. 19 For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth. 20 A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
  • Jas 5:1-2 : 1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you'; 2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
  • Rev 18:7-8 : 7 `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see; 8 because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death, and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong `is' the Lord God who is judging her;
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap, 6 Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!
  • Zech 12:10-14 : 10 And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born. 11 In that day, great is the mourning of Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon, 12 And mourned hath the land -- every family apart, The family of the house of David apart, And their women apart; The family of the house of Nathan apart, And their women apart; 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, And their women apart; The family of Shimei apart, And their women apart, 14 All the families that are left, Every family apart, and their women apart!
  • Lam 5:15 : 15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;
  • 2 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death, 11 for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 `Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'
  • Eccl 7:2-6 : 2 Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart. 3 Better `is' sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better. 4 The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth. 5 Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than `for' a man to hear a song of fools, 6 For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So `is' the laughter of a fool, even this `is' vanity.
  • Isa 22:12-13 : 12 And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth, 13 And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is' he.
  • Job 30:31 : 31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
  • Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.
  • Ps 119:71 : 71 Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!
  • Jer 31:13 : 13 Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

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  • John 16:20
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    20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

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    13 A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.

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    15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

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  • Eccl 3:4
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    4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

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    12 And also now -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.

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    13 but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

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    21 `Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

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    18 And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

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    8 Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

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    8 For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

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    30 and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;

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    5 Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

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    31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

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    11 And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

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    10 And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning `of' an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

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    21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

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    2 All joy count `it', my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

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    4 The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

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    30 And have sounded for thee with their voice, And cry bitterly, and cause dust to go up on their heads, In ashes they do roll themselves.

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    14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a restraint, Gather the elders -- all the inhabitants of the land, `Into' the house of Jehovah your God,

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    40 We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

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    18 My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.

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    26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

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