For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,

Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.

Saul's Jealousy of David

As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.

And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.

On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.

And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

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

I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.

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

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,

so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

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

Haman Plans to Hang Mordecai

And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.

And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.

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

The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

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

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!

For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.

And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

Joy Comes with the Morning

A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple.

I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

The Steadfast Love of the Lord

Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.

Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.

God Is King over All the Earth

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,

for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy,

the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.

How Awesome Are Your Deeds

To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm.

Shout for joy to God, all the earth;

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.

Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.

Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.

For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

Let Us Sing Songs of Praise

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy

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

Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord

A Psalm.

Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!

Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together

His Steadfast Love Endures Forever

A Psalm for giving thanks.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!

He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy.

Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.

The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Enjoy Life with the One You Love

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.

They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west.

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.

For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.

then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.

For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion.

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

these I will bring 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 shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.

Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.

You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?

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

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

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

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me.

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

The Lord Will Turn Mourning to Joy

“At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.”

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.

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

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the Lord.

All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.

Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.

“As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters,

therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Israel's Joy and Restoration

Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.