James 4:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins]. American Standard Version (1901) Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Common English Bible Cry out in sorrow, mourn, and weep! Let your laughter become mourning and your joy become sadness. Catholic Public Domain Version Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. |
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, ‘This day is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.’ For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law.
I said about laughter, ‘It is madness,’ and about pleasure, ‘What does this accomplish? ’
Then the young women will rejoice with dancing, while young and old men rejoice together. I will turn their mourning into joy, give them consolation, and bring happiness out of grief.
They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation. , I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace. This is the declaration of the Lord God.” ’
The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountains. Like doves of the valley, all of them will moan, each over his own iniquity.
‘He will completely destroy those terrible men,’ they told him, ‘and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his fruit at the harvest.’
‘ “Son,” Abraham said, “remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
Blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, because you will laugh.
Woe to you who are now full, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are now laughing, for you will mourn and weep.