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James 4:9

New King James Version

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

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American Standard Version

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

Christian Standard Bible

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

English Standard Version

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

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

Be miserable, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.

New International Version

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

New Living Translation

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.

World English Bible

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