James 4:9

Young's Literal Translation 1862

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

Cross References

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah -- he `is' the Tirshatha -- saith (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, `To-day is holy to Jehovah your God, do not mourn, nor weep:' for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law.

Job 30:31

And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

Psalm 119:136

Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

Psalm 119:67

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Psalm 119:71

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

Proverbs 14:13

Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy `is' affliction.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'

Jeremiah 31:13

Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is' he.

Lamentations 5:15

Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

Ezekiel 16:63

So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Ezekiel 7:16

And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.

Matthew 21:41

They say to him, `Evil men -- he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

Matthew 5:4

`Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.

Luke 16:25

`And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

Luke 6:21

`Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

Luke 6:25

`Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.