James 4:9

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Cross References

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Luke 6:25

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

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Ezekiel 16:63

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 7:16

But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

Luke 16:25

*But Avraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and El'azar, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

Job 30:31

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Luke 6:21

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:9

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Yisra'el, and Efrayim is my firstborn.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, *It is foolishness;* and of mirth, *What does it accomplish?*

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law.

Nehemiah 8:9

Nechemyah, who was the governor, and Ezra the Kohen the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the LORD your God; don't mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Matthew 21:41

They told him, *He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.*