James 4:9

James chapter 4 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

King James Version · 1611

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

American Standard Version · 1901

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

v.8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

v.9This passage

v.10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Ezekiel 16:63
that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Psalms 119:136
Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law. צ TSADHE.
Luke 6:25
Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you, ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.