James 4:9

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.

Cross References

Matthew 5:4

Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted.

Proverbs 14:13

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

Luke 6:25

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

Psalm 119:67

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

Ezekiel 16:63

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.

Ezekiel 7:16

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

Luke 16:25

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.

Job 30:31

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

Luke 6:21

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

Lamentations 5:15

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

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old men together: and I turned their mourning to joy, and I comforted them and caused them to rejoice from their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:9

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

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

Psalm 119:71

Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.

Psalm 119:136

Mine eyes will bring down streams of waters because they will not watch thy laws.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah, (he the Tirshatha) will say, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites causing the people to understand, To all the people this day is holy to Jehovah your God; ye shall not mourn, and ye shall not weep. For all the people weeping in their hearing to the words of the law.

Matthew 21:41

They say to him, He will miserably destroy these wicked, and let out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.