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 on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you.

Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing.

Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.

And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.

And they escaping, escaped, and they were on the mountains as doves of the valleys, all of them slain, a man for his iniquity.

So that thou shalt remember, and thou wert ashamed, and there shall no more be to thee an opening of the mouth from the face of thy shame in my expiating for thee for all which thou didst, says the Lord Jehovah.

And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.

Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted.

Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.

Let

And my harp will be for mourning, and my pipe for the voice of those weeping.

Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.

To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.

The joy of our heart ceased; our dance was turned to mourning.

Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.

General references

Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.