James 4:9

Tree of Life Version

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into 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 ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who are full, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Psalm 119:67

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.

Ezekiel 16:63

So you will remember, be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have forgiven you of all that you have done.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Ezekiel 7:16

Those survivors who escape will head for the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good things, even as Lazarus received the bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are tormented.

Job 30:31

My harp is for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

Luke 6:21

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

Lamentations 5:15

Joy has ceased in our hearts. Our dance has turned into mourning.

Jeremiah 31:13

I will fill the soul of the kohanim with fatness and My people will be satisfied with My goodness.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 31:9

Hear the word of Adonai, O nations, and declare it in the distant islands, and say: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather and watch over him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, “It is madness!” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I was afflicted, so that I may learn Your decrees.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water run down from my eyes, because they do not observe Your Torah.

Nehemiah 8:9

Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the kohen-scribe, and the Levites who were teaching the people said to all the people, “Today is kadosh to Adonai your God. Do not mourn or weep!” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the Torah.

Matthew 21:41

“He will bring those miserable men to a miserable end,” they said to Him, “and will lease the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the fruits in their seasons.”