James 4:9

Grieve, mourn, ¹  and weep. Turn your laughter ²  into mourning and your joy into despair.

Job 30:31; Ps 119:67,71,136; Ps 126:5,6; Pr 14:13; Ec 2:2; Ec 7:2-5; Ec 7:6; Isa 22:12,13; Jer 31:9,13,18-20; La 5:15; Eze 7:16; Eze 16:63; Zec 12:10-14; Mt 5:4; Lu 6:21; Lu 6:25; Lu 16:25; 2Co 7:10,11; Jas 5:1,2; Re 18:7,8

¹ tn This term and the following one are preceded by καί (kai) in the Greek text, but contemporary English generally uses connectives only between the last two items in such a series.

² tn Grk “let your laughter be turned.”