James 4:9
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Cross References
Nehemiah 8:9
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.

Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

Matthew 21:41
"He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they replied, "and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time."

Luke 6:25
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.


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

afflicted.



James 5:1,2
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you



Psalm 119:67,71,136
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word…



Psalm 126:5,6
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy…

let.



Job 30:31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.



Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.



Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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