Drawing Near to God
James 4:9
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
- KJV
- Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
- WEB
- Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
- ASV
- Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
- LSV
- Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;
- YLT
- be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
- DBY
- Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
- DRC
- Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.
- GNV
- Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse.
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- NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort read μετατραπήτω (“should be turned”); Tyndale House, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read μεταστραφήτω (“should be changed”).
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- SBLGNT: μετατραπήτω. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read μετατραπήτω; Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont read μεταστραφήτω.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε· ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μετατραπήτω καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν·
- RP2018
- Ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε· ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μεταστραφήτω, καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν.
- TR-Boyd
- Ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε· ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μεταστραφήτω, καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν.
- SCR1894
- ταλαιπωρησατε και πενθησατε και κλαυσατε ο γελως υμων εις πενθος μεταστραφητω και η χαρα εις κατηφειαν
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- 2 Corinthians 7:10–11Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what…
- Luke 6:25Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
- Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
- James 5:1–2Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
- Psalms 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
- Ecclesiastes 7:2–6It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the…
- Ezekiel 16:63so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Jeremiah 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God. After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I…
- Revelation 18:7–8As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ Therefore her plagues will…
- Ezekiel 7:16The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
- Zechariah 12:10–14Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and…
- Job 30:31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
- Lamentations 5:15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
- Isaiah 22:12–13On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and…
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