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Holman Christian Standard Bible
9 Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.
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English Standard Version
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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King James Version
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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The Message Bible
9 Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious.
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New American Standard Bible
9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
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New International Version
9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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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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New Living Translation
9 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.
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New Revised Standard
9 Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.
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American Standard Version
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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The Bible in Basic English
9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
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Common English Bible
9 Cry out in sorrow, mourn, and weep! Let your laughter become mourning and your joy become sadness.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
9 Cry out in sorrow, mourn, and weep! Let your laughter become mourning and your joy become sadness.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
9 Wail, mourn, sob! Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into gloom!
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The Darby Translation
9 Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
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Good News Translation
9 Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom!
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
9 Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom!
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GOD'S WORD Translation
9 Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom.
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Hebrew Names Version
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
9 Be afflicted , and mourn , and weep : let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Lexham English Bible
9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.
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New Century Version
9 Be sad, cry, and weep! Change your laughter into crying and your joy into sadness.
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New International Reader's Version
9 Be full of sorrow. Cry and sob. Change your laughter to crying. Change your joy to sadness.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
9 Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into sorrow.
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Revised Standard Version
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
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SBL Greek New Testament
9 ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε · ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μετατραπήτω καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν ·
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Third Millennium Bible
9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Tyndale
9 Suffre affliccios: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge and youre ioye to hevynes.
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The Latin Vulgate
9 miseri estote et lugete et plorate risus vester in luctum convertatur et gaudium in maerorem
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The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha
9 miseri estote et lugete et plorate risus vester in luctum convertatur et gaudium in maerorem
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The Webster Bible
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
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World English Bible
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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Weymouth New Testament
9 Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
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Wycliffe
9 Be ye wretches, and wail ye [and weep ye]; your laughing be [it] turned into weeping, and [your] joy into sorrow of heart.
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Young's Literal Translation
9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
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