Zephaniah 3:14
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Joy in God’s Faithfulness
14 (A)Sing, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem!
Isaiah 12:6
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Zechariah 2:10-11
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10 (A)“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I (B)will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. 11 (C)“Many nations shall be joined to the Lord (D)in that day, and they shall become (E)My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then (F)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.
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Micah 4:8
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8 And you, O tower of the flock,
The stronghold of the daughter of Zion,
To you shall it come,
Even the former dominion shall come,
The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 65:18-19
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18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing,
And her people a joy.
19 (A)I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
And joy in My people;
The (B)voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her,
Nor the voice of crying.
Isaiah 54:1
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A Perpetual Covenant of Peace
54 “Sing, O (A)barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
Psalm 95:1-2
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A Call to Worship and Obedience
95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with (A)psalms.
Luke 2:10-14
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10 Then the angel said to them, (A)“Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy (B)which will be to all people. 11 (C)For there is born to you this day in the city of David (D)a Savior, (E)who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a [a]manger.”
13 (F)And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
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Zechariah 9:9-10
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The Coming King(A)
9 “Rejoice (B)greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, (C)your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I (D)will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The (E)battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be (F)‘from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.’
Isaiah 65:13-14
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13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, My servants shall eat,
But you shall be hungry;
Behold, My servants shall drink,
But you shall be thirsty;
Behold, My servants shall rejoice,
But you shall be ashamed;
14 Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart,
But you shall cry for sorrow of heart,
And (A)wail for [a]grief of spirit.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:14 Or a broken spirit
Isaiah 51:11
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11 So (A)the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness;
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 42:10-12
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Praise to the Lord
10 (A)Sing to the Lord a new song,
And His praise from the ends of the earth,
(B)You who go down to the sea, and [a]all that is in it,
You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
The villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
And declare His praise in the coastlands.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 42:10 Lit. its fullness
Isaiah 40:9
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9 O Zion,
You who bring good tidings,
Get up into the high mountain;
O Jerusalem,
You who bring good tidings,
Lift up your voice with strength,
Lift it up, be not afraid;
Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
Isaiah 35:2
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2 (A)It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice,
Even with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
The excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the (B)glory of the Lord,
The excellency of our God.
Isaiah 24:14-16
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14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing;
For the majesty of the Lord
They shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Therefore (A)glorify the Lord in the dawning light,
(B)The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
“Glory to the righteous!”
But I said, [a]“I am ruined, ruined!
Woe to me!
(C)The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,
Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 24:16 Lit. Leanness to me, leanness to me
Psalm 126:2-3
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2 Then (A)our mouth was filled with laughter,
And our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the [a]nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us,
And we are glad.
Footnotes
- Psalm 126:2 Gentiles
Psalm 100:1-2
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A Song of Praise for the Lord’s Faithfulness to His People
(A)A Psalm of Thanksgiving.
100 Make (B)a joyful shout to the Lord, [a]all you lands!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
Footnotes
- Psalm 100:1 Lit. all the earth
Psalm 81:1-3
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An Appeal for Israel’s Repentance
To the Chief Musician. (A)On[a] an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of Asaph.
81 Sing aloud to God our strength;
Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob.
2 Raise a song and strike the timbrel,
The pleasant harp with the lute.
3 Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon,
At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.
Footnotes
- Psalm 81:1 Heb. Al Gittith
Revelation 19:1-6
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Heaven Exults over Babylon
19 After these things (A)I [a]heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Alleluia! (B)Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to [b]the Lord our God! 2 For (C)true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He (D)has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.” 3 Again they said, “Alleluia! (E)Her smoke rises up forever and ever!” 4 And (F)the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, (G)“Amen! Alleluia!” 5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying, (H)“Praise our God, all you His servants and those who fear Him, (I)both[c] small and great!”
6 (J)And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For (K)the[d] Lord God Omnipotent reigns!
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- Revelation 19:1 NU, M add something like
- Revelation 19:1 NU, M omit the Lord
- Revelation 19:5 NU, M omit both
- Revelation 19:6 NU, M our
Matthew 21:9
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9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
“Hosanna to the Son of David!
(A)‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
Hosanna in the highest!”
Zechariah 9:15-17
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15 The Lord of hosts will (A)defend them;
They shall devour and subdue with slingstones.
They shall drink and roar as if with wine;
They shall be filled with blood like [a]basins,
Like the corners of the altar.
16 The Lord their God will (B)save them in that day,
As the flock of His people.
For (C)they shall be like the [b]jewels of a crown,
(D)Lifted like a banner over His land—
17 For (E)how great is [c]its goodness
And how great its (F)beauty!
(G)Grain shall make the young men thrive,
And new wine the young women.
Footnotes
- Zechariah 9:15 Sacrificial basins
- Zechariah 9:16 Lit. stones
- Zechariah 9:17 Lit. His
Jeremiah 33:11
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11 the (A)voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say:
(B)“Praise the Lord of hosts,
For the Lord is good,
For His mercy endures forever”—
and of those who will bring (C)the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,’ says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 31:13
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13 “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
And the young men and the old, together;
For I will turn their mourning to joy,
Will comfort them,
And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.
Jeremiah 30:19
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19 Then (A)out of them shall proceed thanksgiving
And the voice of those who make merry;
(B)I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Psalm 47:5-7
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5 (A)God has gone up with a shout,
The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7 (B)For God is the King of all the earth;
(C)Sing praises with understanding.
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