8 Come close to God and He will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or sister, or judges his brother or sister, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, judging your neighbor?
Verse 8:
Draw night to God and he will draw nigh to you (the first part) is what it says in the American Standard Bible.
Once we tell the devil to flee, we are to draw nigh to God so that He will draw nigh to us (you).
Then we are to wash or clean our hands as we are sinners, purify our hearts from being doubleminded if we were.
2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you. 2 Chronicles 15:2
Verse 9:
We (they) are to be mourning and sad.
We (they) are not to laugh, and we are not to be joyous.
We (they) are to turn these into mourning and gloom.
3 steps to having peace and being with God
Be afflicted then mourn and then weep.
This Day Is Holy
9 Then Nehemiah, who was the [a]governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the Law. Nehemiah 8:9
13 Even in laughter the heart may be in pain,
And the end of joy may be grief. Proverbs 14:13
Verse 10:
Again, we are to humble ourselves but this time he (the writer) says in the presence of the Lord.
If we do this He (God) will exalt you (us).
11 So that He sets on high those who are lowly,
And those who mourn are lifted to safety. Job 5:11
Verse 11:
This verse talks about not speaking evil against one another.
Several Bible versions say, speak no evil.
Then the verse goes on to talk about judging others and the law.
If we are judging the law, we are judges not doers of the law.
This is something we should not be doing.
Verse 12 tells us this.
20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish, and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, selfishness, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances; 2 Corinthians 12:20
Verse 12:
There is only one who can be the lawgiver and Judge, they are talking about Jesus/God.
The writer talks about the one who is able to save and to destroy, this again is talking about Jesus/God.
The last part of verse 12 says but who are you, judging your neighbor.
Who are we meaning us being the judge instead of God.
Judging your neighbor means to judge others.
22 For the Lord is our judge,
The Lord is our lawgiver,
The Lord is our king;
He will save us— Isaiah 33:22
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