Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Jas 4:9

“Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.”

“Be afflicted--literally, "Endure misery," that is, mourn over your wretchedness through sin. Repent with deep sorrow instead of your present laughter. A blessed mourning. Contrast Isa 22:12-13; Luk 6:25. James does not add here, as in Jam 5:1, "howl," where he foretells the doom of the impenitent at the coming destruction of Jerusalem. heaviness--literally, "falling of the countenance," casting down of the eyes.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.