Joy in the Bible: 100+ Verses on True Joy

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.

Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

The LORD’s anger burnt against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

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

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.

Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,

There you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

You shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD 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 the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

You shall rejoice before the LORD your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are amongst you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.

You shall keep a feast to the LORD your God seven days in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is amongst you.

You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God.

Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

The LORD your God will make you prosperous 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 the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

About Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;

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.

The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.

Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws towards evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”

So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

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

When the ark of the LORD’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

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.

When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.

King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

So David and all the house of Israel brought up the LORD’s ark with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

As the LORD’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”

All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is the LORD today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.

Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say amongst the nations, “The LORD reigns!”

Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is in it!

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.

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

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.

and ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before the LORD to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

“Now therefore arise, LORD God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

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 the LORD had shown to David, to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom.

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 the LORD gave them rest all around.

Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the LORD’s house.

Then she looked, and behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, with the captains and the trumpeters by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”

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

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

All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.

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

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

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 the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments to the LORD.

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

All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because the LORD 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.

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 the LORD is your strength.”

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.

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

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

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.

On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them according to the fields of the cities the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who served.

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

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.

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

In every province and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast and a holiday. Many from amongst the peoples of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.

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

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

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

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

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

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

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

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.

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

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

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

I will sing to the LORD, because he has been good to me.

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

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

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

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

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

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

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

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

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

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

The LORD 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.

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

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

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

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

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

Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.

Sing to him a new song. Play skilfully with a shout of joy!

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

My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

Let those who favour my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May The LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

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

Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

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

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

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.

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

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

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

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

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgements.

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

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

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.

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

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

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

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.

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

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.

For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm. Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!

He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.

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

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to the LORD, his name! Rejoice before him!

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, amongst the ladies playing with tambourines,

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

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

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

For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”

You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

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

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy

The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgements, LORD.

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

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

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD.

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

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

Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing amongst the branches.

wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

Let the LORD’s glory endure forever. Let the LORD rejoice in his works.

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

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

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

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

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

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

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counsellors.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

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

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

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

I have longed for your salvation, LORD. Your law is my delight.

A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to the LORD’s house!”

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said amongst the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

The LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

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

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

For you will eat the labour of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!

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

A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.

They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,

Praise the LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.

Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,

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

Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

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

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

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

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

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

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

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

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

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.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, is the gift of God.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labour in which you labour under the sun.

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgement.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.

Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.

As the apple tree amongst the trees of the wood, so is my beloved amongst the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

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.

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

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

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.

Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”

You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of the LORD. They cry aloud from the sea.

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

Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

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

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 the LORD’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

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

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 the LORD’s glory, the excellence of our God.

Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Then the LORD’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.”

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

Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

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

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in the LORD.’” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the LORD, and will rejoice!

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says the LORD, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

For the LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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

Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when the LORD returns to Zion.

Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the LORD.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

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.

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.”

then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.

“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

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 the LORD, that he may be glorified.

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

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! 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.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

Therefore the Lord GOD says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed.

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

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.

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.

Hear the LORD’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

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

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.”

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

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

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, LORD, God of Armies.

“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”

For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

For the LORD says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’

They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of the LORD, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, 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.

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.”

This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’”

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 the LORD of Armies, for the LORD is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into the LORD’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says the LORD.

Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad.

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses,

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says the LORD.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

The Lord GOD says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things.

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

The LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.

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.

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

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

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.

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

The LORD, your God, is amongst you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you,’ says the LORD.

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the LORD’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”

The LORD of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

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.

The LORD of Armies will defend them. They will destroy and overcome with sling stones. They will drink, and roar as through wine. They will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

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 the LORD.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

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

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

“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.’

“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.’

They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.

Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.

Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.

They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

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

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favoured one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you amongst women!”

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leapt in my womb for joy!

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour,

Her neighbours and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

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.

He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

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.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said.

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

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

In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

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

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.

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’

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

“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, fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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

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

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

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.’

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.’”

He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

They worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore my joy is made full.

So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

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.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

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.

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

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

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

They were all amazed and marvelled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?

Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,

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

Then those who gladly received his word were baptised. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour for Jesus’ name.

They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

There was great joy in that city.

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.

He gave her his hand and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

When she recognised Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

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

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.

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

They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.

“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defence before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

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.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

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

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

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

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”

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.

whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgement, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.

as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.

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

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

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

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

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.”

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

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

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honour,

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

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

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For you are our glory and our joy.

But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

Always rejoice.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

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.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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

Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

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

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

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

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

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has judged your judgement on her.”

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”