JOY

Passages on this topic · 300

• Exodus 15:1

  Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

• Exodus 15:2

  Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

• Exodus 15:3

  Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

• Exodus 15:4

  He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

• Exodus 15:5

  The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

• Exodus 15:6

  Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

• Exodus 15:7

  In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

• Exodus 15:8

  With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• Exodus 15:9

  The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’

• Exodus 15:10

  You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

• Exodus 15:11

  Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

• Exodus 15:12

  You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

• Exodus 15:13

  “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

• Exodus 15:14

  The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

• Exodus 15:15

  Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

• Exodus 15:16

  Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone — until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased.

• Exodus 15:17

  You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

• Exodus 15:18

  Yahweh shall reign forever and ever.”

• Exodus 15:19

  For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

• Exodus 15:20

  Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

• Exodus 15:21

  Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

• Exodus 15:22

  Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

• Deuteronomy 12:18

  but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

• Deuteronomy 28:63

  It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 30:9

  Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

• Ruth 2:20

  Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

• Ruth 4:14

  The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

• 1 Samuel 2:1

  Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

• 1 Samuel 2:2

  There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

• 1 Samuel 2:4

  “The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

• 1 Samuel 2:5

  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

• 1 Samuel 2:6

  “Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

• 1 Samuel 2:8

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

• 1 Samuel 2:9

  He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

• 1 Samuel 2:10

  Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

• 1 Samuel 2:11

  Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

• 1 Samuel 10:24

  Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted, and said, “Long live the king!”

• 1 Samuel 18:6

  As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

• 1 Samuel 18:7

  The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

• 1 Chronicles 12:40

  Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 13:8

  David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.

• 1 Chronicles 15:16

  David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 15:25

  So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 15:28

  Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

• 1 Chronicles 16:27

  Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 29:9

  Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

• 1 Chronicles 29:10

  Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

• 1 Chronicles 29:11

  Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

• 1 Chronicles 29:12

  Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

• 1 Chronicles 29:13

  Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.

• 1 Chronicles 29:14

  But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

• 1 Chronicles 29:15

  For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

• 1 Chronicles 29:16

  Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.

• 1 Chronicles 29:17

  I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

• 1 Chronicles 29:18

  Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

• 1 Chronicles 29:19

  and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

• 2 Chronicles 7:10

  On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

• 2 Chronicles 15:14

  They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.

• 2 Chronicles 15:15

  All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

• 2 Chronicles 23:18

  Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.

• 2 Chronicles 23:21

  So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.

• 2 Chronicles 29:30

  Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

• 2 Chronicles 29:36

  Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

• 2 Chronicles 30:21

  The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 30:23

  The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.

• 2 Chronicles 30:26

  So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.

• Ezra 3:11

  They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.

• Ezra 3:12

  But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

• Ezra 3:13

  so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.

• Ezra 6:16

  The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

• Ezra 6:22

  and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

• Nehemiah 8:9

  Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

• Nehemiah 8:11

  So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”

• Nehemiah 8:12

  All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

• Nehemiah 8:13

  On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.

• Nehemiah 8:14

  They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

• Nehemiah 8:15

  and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters, as it is written.”

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.

• Nehemiah 8:17

  All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.

• Nehemiah 8:18

  Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

• Nehemiah 12:43

  They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

• Esther 7:10

  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

• Esther 8:15

  Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

• Esther 8:16

  The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

• Job 8:21

  He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

• Job 22:21

  “Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

• Job 22:26

  For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

• Psalms 2:11

  Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

• Psalms 4:7

  You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

• Psalms 5:11

  But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

• Psalms 9:2

  I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

• Psalms 9:14

  that I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.

• Psalms 13:5

  But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

• Psalms 14:7

  Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

• Psalms 16:5

  Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

• Psalms 16:6

  The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

• Psalms 16:8

  I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

• Psalms 16:9

  Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

• Psalms 16:11

  You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

• Psalms 17:15

  As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

• Psalms 19:8

  Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

• Psalms 20:5

  We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

• Psalms 21:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

• Psalms 21:6

  For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

• Psalms 28:7

  Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

• Psalms 30:5

  For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

• Psalms 30:11

  You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

• Psalms 30:12

  To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

• Psalms 32:1

  By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

• Psalms 32:2

  Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

• Psalms 32:11

  Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

• Psalms 33:21

  For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

• Psalms 35:9

  My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

• Psalms 36:8

  They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

• Psalms 40:16

  Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

• Psalms 42:4

  These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

• Psalms 43:4

  Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

• Psalms 45:15

  With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace.

• Psalms 46:4

  There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

• Psalms 51:8

  Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

• Psalms 51:12

  Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

• Psalms 53:6

  Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

• Psalms 63:5

  My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

• Psalms 63:6

  when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

• Psalms 63:7

  For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

• Psalms 63:11

  But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

• Psalms 64:10

  The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

• Psalms 68:3

  But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

• Psalms 69:32

  The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

• Psalms 70:4

  Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

• Psalms 71:23

  My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

• Psalms 85:6

  Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

• Psalms 89:15

  Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

• Psalms 89:16

  In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

• Psalms 97:11

  Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

• Psalms 97:12

  Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

• Psalms 100:1

  A Psalm of thanksgiving. Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

• Psalms 100:2

  Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

• Psalms 104:34

  Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

• Psalms 105:3

  Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

• Psalms 105:43

  He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.

• Psalms 119:1

  ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

• Psalms 119:2

  Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

• Psalms 119:14

  I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

• Psalms 119:16

  I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

• Psalms 119:55

  I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

• Psalms 119:111

  I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

• Psalms 119:162

  I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

• Psalms 119:165

  Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

• Psalms 126:5

  Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

• Psalms 126:6

  He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

• Psalms 132:16

  Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

• Psalms 138:5

  Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great is Yahweh’s glory.

• Psalms 149:2

  Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

• Psalms 149:5

  Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

• Proverbs 10:28

  The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

• Proverbs 13:9

  The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

• Proverbs 19:23

  The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

• Proverbs 28:12

  When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

• Proverbs 29:6

  An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

• Ecclesiastes 2:26

  For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

• Isaiah 9:3

  You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

• Isaiah 12:1

  In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

• Isaiah 12:2

  Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

• Isaiah 12:3

  Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

• Isaiah 12:4

  In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

• Isaiah 12:5

  Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

• Isaiah 12:6

  Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

• Isaiah 25:9

  It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

• Isaiah 29:19

  The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 30:29

  You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

• Isaiah 35:1

  The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

• Isaiah 35:2

  It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

• Isaiah 35:10

  The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

• Isaiah 41:16

  You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 44:23

  Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

• Isaiah 49:13

  Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break out into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

• Isaiah 51:11

  Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

• Isaiah 52:9

  Break out into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 55:12

  For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

• Isaiah 56:7

  I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

• Isaiah 61:3

  to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

• Isaiah 61:7

  Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land, they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Isaiah 65:14

  Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

• Isaiah 65:19

  I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.

• Isaiah 66:10

  “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

• Isaiah 66:11

  that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”

• Isaiah 66:12

  For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.

• Isaiah 66:14

  You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

• Jeremiah 15:16

  Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

• Jeremiah 31:12

  They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

• Jeremiah 31:13

  Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

• Jeremiah 31:14

  I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 31:25

  For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul I have replenished.”

• Jeremiah 31:26

  On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

• Jeremiah 32:41

  Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

• Jeremiah 33:6

  ‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

• Jeremiah 33:11

  the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first,” says Yahweh.

• Joel 2:23

  “Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.

• Nahum 1:15

  Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

• Habakkuk 3:18

  yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

• Zephaniah 3:14

  Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

• Haggai 2:9

  ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place will I give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

• Zechariah 2:10

  Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

• Zechariah 9:9

  Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

• Zechariah 10:7

  Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

• Matthew 18:13

  If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

• Matthew 25:21

  “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

• Luke 1:5

  There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

• Luke 1:6

  They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

• Luke 1:7

  But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

• Luke 1:8

  Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division,

• Luke 1:9

  according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

• Luke 1:10

  The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

• Luke 1:11

  An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

• Luke 1:12

  Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.

• Luke 1:13

  But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

• Luke 1:14

  You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

• Luke 1:15

  For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

• Luke 1:16

  He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.

• Luke 1:17

  He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

• Luke 1:18

  Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

• Luke 1:19

  The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

• Luke 1:20

  Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

• Luke 1:21

  The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

• Luke 1:47

  My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

• Luke 2:10

  The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

• Luke 6:22

  Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

• Luke 6:23

  Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

• Luke 10:20

  Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

• Luke 15:6

  When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

• Luke 15:7

  I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

• Luke 15:8

  Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

• Luke 15:10

  Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

• Luke 15:11

  He said, “A certain man had two sons.

• Luke 15:12

  The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

• Luke 15:13

  Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

• Luke 15:14

  When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

• Luke 15:15

  He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Luke 15:16

  He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

• Luke 15:17

  But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

• Luke 15:18

  I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

• Luke 15:19

  I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

• Luke 15:20

  “He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

• Luke 15:21

  The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

• Luke 15:22

  “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

• Luke 15:23

  Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

• Luke 15:24

  for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.

• Luke 15:25

  “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

• Luke 15:26

  He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

• Luke 15:27

  He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

• Luke 15:28

  But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

• Luke 15:29

  But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

• Luke 15:30

  But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

• Luke 15:31

  “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

• Luke 15:32

  But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

• Luke 24:52

  They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

• John 16:20

  Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

• John 16:22

  Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

• John 16:24

  Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

• John 16:33

  I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

• John 17:13

  But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

• Acts 2:28

  You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

• Acts 8:8

  There was great joy in that city.

• Acts 8:39

  When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

• Acts 13:52

  The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

• Acts 16:25

  But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

• Acts 16:34

  He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

• Romans 5:2

  through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

• Romans 5:11

  Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

• Romans 12:12

  rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

• Romans 14:17

  for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

• Romans 15:13

  Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• 2 Corinthians 1:12

  For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

• 2 Corinthians 1:24

  Not that we control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

• 2 Corinthians 6:10

  as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

• 2 Corinthians 7:4

  Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

• 2 Corinthians 8:2

  how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

• 2 Corinthians 12:10

  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

• Galatians 5:22

  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

• Ephesians 5:18

  Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

• Ephesians 5:19

  speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

• Philippians 3:3

  For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

• Philippians 4:4

  Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

• Colossians 1:11

  strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

• 1 Thessalonians 1:6

  You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

• 1 Thessalonians 5:16

  Rejoice always.

• Hebrews 10:34

  For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

• James 1:2

  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

• James 5:13

  Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

• 1 Peter 1:8

  whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —

• 1 Peter 4:13

  But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

• 1 John 1:4

  And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

• 1 John 1:24