9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. …
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height. I. The apostle here reproves the Jewish Christians for their wars, and for their lusts as the cause of them: Whence co…
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