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Jas 5:13 King James Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
afflicted--referring to the "suffering affliction" (Jam 5:10).

let him pray--not "swear" in rash impatience.

merry--joyous in mind.

sing psalms--of praise. Paul and Silas sang psalms even in affliction.
 
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10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.