James 4:9 · KJV
“Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and {your} joy to heaviness.”
— James 4:9
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse {your} hands, {ye} sinners; and purify {your} hearts, {ye} double minded.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
James 4 — Context
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse {your} hands, {ye} sinners; and purify {your} hearts, {ye} double minded.
9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and {your} joy to heaviness.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of {his} brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:10-11
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed {are} they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Luke 6:25
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth {is} heaviness.
James 5:1-2
Go to now, {ye} rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon {you}.
Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself {thus}; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed {to the yoke}: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou {art} the LORD my God.
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.