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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jam 4:9 — Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
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Jam 5:1 |
Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. |
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Jam 5:2 |
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. |
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Psa 119:67 |
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. |
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Psa 119:71 |
[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. |
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Psa 119:136 |
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. |
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Psa 126:5 |
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. |
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Psa 126:6 |
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him]. |
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Ecc 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. |
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Ecc 7:3 |
Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. |
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Ecc 7:4 |
The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth. |
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Ecc 7:5 |
[It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. |
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Isa 22:12 |
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: |
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Isa 22:13 |
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. |
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Jer 31:9 |
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn. |
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Jer 31:13 |
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. |
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Jer 31:18 |
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. |
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Jer 31:19 |
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. |
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Jer 31:20 |
[Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. |
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Eze 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. |
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Eze 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. |
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Zec 12:10 |
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn. |
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Mat 5:4 |
Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. |
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Luk 6:21 |
Blessed [are ye] that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed [are ye] that weep now: for ye shall laugh. |
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2Cr 7:10 |
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. |
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2Cr 7:11 |
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. |
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Job 30:31 |
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. |
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Pro 14:13 |
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness. |
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Ecc 2:2 |
I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? |
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Ecc 7:6 |
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity. |
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Lam 5:15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
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Luk 6:25 |
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. |
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Luk 16:25 |
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. |
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Rev 18:7 |
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. |
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Rev 18:8 |
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "James 4:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jam/4/9.html>.
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