New Testament · SCRIPTURE
James 4:9
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Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
KJV text & permissions
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your⁺ laughter be turned to mourning and the joy to gloom.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
James 4
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
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