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

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

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.

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,

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.

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.

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!'

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.

Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.

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

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

Let

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

Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.

Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What is this it is doing?'

For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.

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

Woe to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. 'Woe to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

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;

'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;

General references

Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.