James 4:9

New Messianic Version Bible

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

Cross References

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted”.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that gladness [is] heaviness.

Luke 6:25

Woe unto you that are full! for you2f shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for you2f shall mourn and weep.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept youri word.

Ezekiel 16:63

That youi may remember, and be confounded, and never open youri mouth anymore because of youri shame, when I am pacified toward youi for all that youi have done, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER).

Ezekiel 7:16

But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for his iniquity.

Luke 16:25

But Avraham [Exalted Father] said, Son, remember that youi in youri lifetime received youri good things, and likewise El’azar [whom God helps] evil things: but now he is comforted, and youi are tormented.

Job 30:31

My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Luke 6:21

Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [are you2f] that hunger now: for you2f shall be filled. Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [are you2f] that weep now: for you2f shall 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, both young men and 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 supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [is] my firstborn.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of gladness, What does it?

Psalm 119:71

[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn youri statutes.

Psalm 119:136

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not youri law.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nechemyah [God comforts], which [is] the Tirshata [governor], and ‘the priest the scribe, and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Matthew 21:41

They answered him saying: “As for the wicked he will destroy them in misery and his vineyard he will give to other workers who will immediately give to him the portion of his produce.”