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James 4:9

RepentanceGriefSin

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

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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.
DARBY
Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
BLB
Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your⁺ laughter be turned to mourning and the joy to gloom.
ÅB
Kjenn deres nød og sørg og gråt! Deres latter vende seg til sorg, og gleden til bedrøvelse!
OTB
Vær bedrøvet, sørg og gråt. La latteren deres bli vendt til sorg og gleden til tungsinn.
B1930
Kjenn eders nød og sørg og gråt! Eders latter vende sig til sorg, og gleden til bedrøvelse!

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