James 4:9

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Summary

James 4:9

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Afflicted

Let

General references

Proverbs 14:13

Bible References

Afflicted

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep Your word.

Those who sow in tears
will reap with shouts of joy.

It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
since that is the end of all mankind,
and the living should take it to heart.

On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.

They will come weeping,
but I will bring them back with consolation.

I will lead them to wadis filled with water
by a smooth way where they will not stumble,
for I am Israel’s Father,
and Ephraim is My firstborn.

The survivors among them will escape
and live on the mountains
like doves of the valley,
all of them moaning,
each over his own iniquity.

so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

“Then I will pour out a spirit

of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.

Those who mourn are blessed,

for they will be comforted.

You who are now hungry are blessed,
because you will be filled.
You who now weep are blessed,
because you will laugh.

For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.

Let

My lyre is used for mourning
and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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Even in laughter a heart may be sad,
and joy may end in grief.

I said about laughter, “It is madness,” and about pleasure, “What does this accomplish?”

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,
so is the laughter of the fool.
This too is futile.

Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.

Woe to you who are now full,
for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who are now laughing,
for you will mourn and weep.

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
give her that much torment and grief,
for she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”

General references

Even in laughter a heart may be sad,
and joy may end in grief.