James 4:9 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁹ Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ [As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Common English Bible

⁹ Cry out in sorrow, mourn, and weep! Let your laughter become mourning and your joy become sadness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.

James 4:9 Cross References

Matthew 21:41

They said to Him, "He will destroy [those] wicked [men] miserably, and lease his vineyard to other farmers, who will render to him the fruits in their seasons."

Matthew 5:4

Blessed [are] those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

Luke 6:21

Blessed [are] you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed [are] you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who have been filled, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.