James 4:9
oBe afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε· ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μεταστραφήτω, καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν.
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Psalms 119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Jeremiah 13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Ezekiel 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ezekiel 7:16 ¶But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
James 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
humble yourselves for your sins, before mentioned, and in the sense of wrath approaching, if ye do not.
with inward sorrow of heart.
show your inward grief by weeping, the usual expression and sign of it.
your carnal rejoicing in what you get by sinful courses, Jas 4:1,2, lusting, warring, fighting.
exchange your carnal joy for godly sorrow.
to the same purpose as laughter, before: by it he means their pleasing themselves in the success of their unrighteousness, the gain of their rapine and violence.
the same as mourning, or an outward expression of it in the dejection of the countenance, which usually proceeds from shame or sorrow, (and the Greek word signifies both), whereas joy and confidence make men lift up their heads or faces, Ezr 9:6 Job 10:15 Job 11:15 22:26 Luk 21:28.