James 4:9

The Scriptures 1998

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.

Cross References

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed are those who mourn, because they shall be comforted.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter the heart is in pain, And the end of that joy is heaviness.

Luke 6:25

“Woe to you who have been filled, because you shall hunger. Woe to you who are laughing now, because you shall mourn and weep.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I myself was going astray, But now I have guarded Your word.

Ezekiel 16:63

so that you remember. And you shall be ashamed, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I pardon you for all you have done,” declares the Master יהוה.’ ”

Ezekiel 7:16

while they who escape of them shall escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his crookedness.

Luke 16:25

“But Aḇ

Job 30:31

So my lyre becomes mourning, and my flute the sound of weeping.

Luke 6:21

“Blessed are you who hunger now, because you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, because you shall laugh.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has turned into mourning.

Jeremiah 31:13

“Then shall a maiden rejoice in a dance, and young men and old, together. And I shall turn their mourning to joy, and shall comfort them, and shall make them rejoice from their sorrow,

Jeremiah 31:9

“With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra’ĕ

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of rejoicing, “What does it do?”

Psalm 119:71

It was good for me that I was afflicted, That I might learn Your laws.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water have run down from my eyes, Because they did not guard Your Torah.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Neḥ

Matthew 21:41

They said to Him, “Evil ones! He shall bring them to evil destruction, and lease the vineyard to other farmers who shall give to him the fruits in their seasons.”