Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
Lament and mourn, and weep aloud! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, And your joy into gloom!
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Holman Bible
Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.
International Standard Version
Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.
A Conservative Version
Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.
American Standard Version
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Amplified
Be miserable and grieve and weep [over your sin]. Let your [foolish] laughter be turned to mourning and your [reckless] joy to gloom.
An Understandable Version
Be distressed and grieve and cry [over your sins]; your laughter should turn into grieving and your joy [should turn] into sorrow.
Anderson New Testament
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to sorrow.
Bible in Basic English
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
Common New Testament
Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Daniel Mace New Testament
be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation.
Darby Translation
Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Godbey New Testament
Weep, and mourn, lament: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.
Goodspeed New Testament
Be miserable, grieve, and weep aloud! Turn your laughter into grief and your happiness into gloom.
John Wesley New Testament
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.
Julia Smith Translation
Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.
King James 2000
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.
Modern King James verseion
Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Moffatt New Testament
Lament and mourn and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to depression;
NET Bible
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.
New Heart English Bible
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Noyes New Testament
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.
Sawyer New Testament
Lament, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.
The Emphasized Bible
Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be bitterly afflicted and lament, and let your tears run down; let your laughter be converted into mourning, and your joy into dejection.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
Webster
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Weymouth New Testament
Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
Williams New Testament
Be miserable, mourn ... and weep aloud. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your joy to gloom.
World English Bible
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Worrell New Testament
Be wretched, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness!
Worsley New Testament
Be grieved, and mourn, and weep: let your mirth be turned into mourning, and your joy to sadness.
Youngs Literal Translation
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
Themes
Earthly » Joy joy » Joy, earthly
Joy » Earthly » Manifested in laughter
Joy » Earthly » General references to
Joy » Of the wicked » Should be turned into mourning
Interlinear
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Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:9
Images James 4:9
Prayers for James 4:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
8 Draw near to God And he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, And purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn, and weep aloud! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, And your joy into gloom! 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, And he will raise you up.
Names
Cross References
Luke 6:25
"Woe unto you who are full now! For you shall suffer hunger. "Woe to you who are laughing now! For you shall wail and weep.
Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Luke 6:21
"Blessed are you who are hungry now, For you shall be filled. "Blessed are you who are wailing now, For you shall laugh.
Luke 16:25
"'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.
2 Corinthians 7:10-11
For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the world's pain works death.
James 5:1-2
Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you!
Revelation 18:7-8
By so much as she glorified herself and waxed wanton, By so much give her of torture and tears, For she says in her heart, 'I sit here a queen, I am no widow. I shall in no wise see mourning.'