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James 4:9

9 aBe miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

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James 4:9 — The New International Version (NIV)

Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.

James 4:9 — English Standard Version (ESV)

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

James 4:9 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

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

James 4:9 — New Living Translation (NLT)

Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.

James 4:9 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

James 4:9 — New Century Version (NCV)

Be sad, cry, and weep! Change your laughter into crying and your joy into sadness.

James 4:9 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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

James 4:9 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

James 4:9 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom.

James 4:9 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.

James 4:9 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.

James 4:9 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.

James 4:9 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

Be full of sorrow. Cry and sob. Change your laughter to crying. Change your joy to sadness.


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