James 4:9

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Be ye wretches, and wail ye [or weep ye]; your laughing be turned into weeping, and [your] joy into sorrow of heart.

Cross References

Nehemiah 8:9

Forsooth Nehemiah said, he is the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and writer, and the deacons [or Levites], expounding to all the people, This is a day hallowed to the Lord our God; do not ye mourn, and do not ye weep. For all the people wept, when it heard the words of the law.

Job 30:31

Mine harp is turned into mourning, and mine organ into the voice of weepers.

Psalm 119:136

Mine eyes led forth the outgoings of waters; for they kept not thy law.

Psalm 119:67

Before that I was made meek, I trespassed; therefore I kept thy speech.

Psalm 119:71

It is good to me, that thou hast made me meek; that I learn thy justi-fyings.

Proverbs 14:13

Laughing shall be meddled [or mingled] with sorrow; and mourning occupieth the last things of joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

And laughing I areckoned error, and I said to joy, What art thou, deceived in vain?

Jeremiah 31:13

Then a virgin shall be glad in a company, young men and eld together; and I shall turn the mourning of them into joy, and I shall comfort them, and I shall make them glad of their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:9

They shall come in weeping, and I shall bring them again in mercy; and I shall bring them by the strands [or streams] of waters in a rightful [or right] way, they shall not spurn therein; for I am made a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my engendered son.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart failed; our song is turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 16:63

that thou have mind, and be ashamed; and that it be no more to thee to open the mouth for thy shame, when I shall be pleased to thee in all things which thou didest, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 7:16

And they shall be saved that flee of them; and they shall be as culvers of great valleys in [the] hills, all-quaking, each man in his wickedness.

Matthew 21:41

They say to him, He shall lose evil, the evil men, and he shall set to hire his vineyard to other earth-tillers, which shall yield to him fruit in their times.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed be mild men, for they shall wield the earth.

Luke 16:25

And Abraham said to him, Son, have mind, for thou hast received good things in thy life, and Lazarus also evil things; but he is now comforted, and thou art tormented.

Luke 6:21

Blessed be ye, that now hunger, for ye shall be full-filled. Blessed be ye, that now weep, for ye shall laugh. [Blessed be ye, that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed be ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.]

Luke 6:25

Woe to you that be full-filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh, for ye shall mourn, and weep. [Woe to you that be filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn, and weep.]