845 verses about Joy

They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.

And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel.

Judith said to him, “Who am I, that I should contradict my lord? For whatever would be pleasing in his eyes, I will do speedily, and this will be my joy to the day of my death.”

Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.”

But when she finished speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.

When they came to her, they all blessed her with one accord, and said to her, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem! You are the great glory of Israel! You are the great rejoicing of our race!

And all the women of Israel ran together to see her; and they blessed her, and made a dance among them for her. She took branches in her hand, and distributed them to the women who were with her.

The they made themselves garlands of olive, she and those who were with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women. All the men of Israel followed in their armor with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.

And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.

Now on the seventh day, the king, being merry, told Haman, Bazan, Tharrha, Baraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Ahasuerus,

The king made a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly celebrated the marriage of Esther; and he granted a remission of taxes to those who were under his dominion.

So Haman went out from the king very glad and merry: but when Haman saw Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was greatly enraged.

And Mordecai went forth robed in the royal apparel, and wearing a golden crown, and a diadem of fine purple linen: and the people in Susa saw it and rejoiced.

And the Jews had light and gladness,

in every city and province wherever the ordinance was published: wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth: and many of the Gentiles were circumcised, and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.

And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.

And the Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they kept also the fifteenth with joy and gladness.

On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbor.

to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;

for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and as to the month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends, and to the poor.

And Mordecai was viceroy to king Ahasuerus, and was a great man in the kingdom, and honored by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all his nation. [And Mardocheus said, These things have been done of God. For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters: for not one particular of them has failed. There was the little spring which became a river, and there was light, and the sun and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen. And the two serpents are I and Haman. And the nations are those nations that combined to destroy the name of the Jews. But as for my nation, this is Israel, even they that cried to God and were delivered: for the Lord delivered his people. And the Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God wrought such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations. Therefore did he ordain two lots. One for the people of God, and one for all the other nations . And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations. And God remembered his people, and vindicated his inheritance. And they shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations for ever among his people Israel. In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]

Come therefore and let us enjoy the good things that now are; And let us use the creation with all our soul as youth’s possession.

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry: Everywhere let us leave tokens of our mirth: Because this is our portion, and our lot is this.

Therefore will they receive the crown of royal dignity And the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand; Because with his right hand will he cover them, And with his arm will he shield them.

And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them; Though I knew not that she was the mother of them.

When I am come into my house, I will find rest with her; For converse with her has no bitterness, And to live with her has no pain, but gladness and joy.

For like horses they roamed at large, And they skipped about like lambs, Praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.

For in all things, O Lord, you did magnify your people, And you did glorify them and not lightly regard them; Standing by their side in every time and place.

The fear of the Lord is glory, and exultation, And gladness, and a crown of rejoicing.

The fear of the Lord will delight the heart, And will give gladness, and joy, and length of days.

A man that is longsuffering will bear for a season, And afterward gladness will spring up to him;

You⌃ that fear the Lord, hope for good things, And for eternal gladness and mercy.

Whoso honors his father will have joy of his children; And in the day of his prayer he will be heard.

He that loves her loves life; And those who seek to her early will be filled with gladness.

Then will she return again the straight way to him, And will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets.

For at the last you will find her rest; And she will be turned for you into gladness.

You shall put her on as a robe of glory, And shall array you with her as a crown of rejoicing.

Beware that you be not deceived, and brought low in your mirth.

A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity; And the finding out of parables is a weariness of thinking.

Defraud not yourself of a good day; And don’t let the portion of a good desire pass you by.

He will inherit joy, and a crown of gladness, And an everlasting name.

He that makes merry in his heart will be condemned:

For my memorial is sweeter than honey, And my inheritance than the honeycomb.

There be nine things that I have thought of, and in my heart counted happy; And the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that has joy of his children; A man that lives and looks upon the fall of his enemies:

Happy is the husband of a good wife; And the number of his days will be twofold.

Whether a man be rich or poor, A good heart makes at all times a cheerful countenance.

The grace of a wife will delight her husband; And her knowledge will fatten his bones.

He that loves his son will continue to lay stripes upon him, That he may have joy of him in the end.

In his life, he saw and rejoiced in him; And when he died, he sorrowed not:

There is no riches better than health of body; And there is no gladness above the joy of the heart.

Give not over your soul to sorrow; And afflict not yourself in your own counsel.

Gladness of heart is the life of a man; And the joyfulness of a man is length of days.

Love your own soul, and comfort your heart: And remove sorrow far from you; For sorrow has destroyed many, And there is no profit therein.

A cheerful and good heart Will have a care of his meat and diet.

Wine is as good as life to men, If you drink it in its measure: What life is there to a man that is without wine? And it has been created to make men glad.

Wine drunk in season and to satisfy Is joy of heart, and gladness of soul:

Rebuke not your neighbor at a banquet of wine, Neither set him at nothing in his mirth: Speak not to him a word of reproach, And press not upon him by asking back a debt.

And when you have done all your office, take your place, That you may be gladdened on their account, And receive a crown for your well ordering.

As a signet of carbuncle in a setting of gold, So is a concert of music in a banquet of wine.

As a signet of emerald in a work of gold, So is a strain of music with pleasant wine.

In every gift show a cheerful countenance, And dedicate your tithe with gladness.

A wise man shall be filled with blessing; And all those who see him shall call him happy.

They shall rejoice in his commandment, And shall be made ready upon earth, when need is; And in their seasons they shall not transgress his word.

Wine and music rejoice the heart; And the love of wisdom is above both.

May he grant us joyfulness of heart, And that peace may be in our days in Israel for the days of eternity:

May your soul rejoice in his mercy, And may you⌃ not be put to shame in praising him.

O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.

Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.

For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.

For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you from the Everlasting your Saviour.

For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever.

For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.

O Jerusalem, look about you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God.

Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.

Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that comes from God forever.

Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you toward the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.

For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.

Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven: and to be praised and glorified forever.

And all his kindred helped him, and so did all those who clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel.

And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed forever.

And Jerusalem was without inhabitant as a wilderness, there was none of her offspring that went in or went out; and the sanctuary was trodden down, and the sons of strangers were in the citadel, the Gentiles lodged therein; and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased.

And all the people fell upon their faces, and worshipped, and gave praise to heaven, which had given them good success.

And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and offered burned offerings with gladness, and sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance and praise.

And there was exceeding great gladness among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.

And Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy.

And they took to them those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judea with great gladness.

And they went up to mount Sion with gladness and joy, and offered whole burnt offerings, because not so much as one of them was slain until they returned in peace.

And the people were exceeding glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness.

And the thing was well-pleasing in their sight.

And Ptolemy the king answered, saying, Happy is the day wherein you did return into the land of your fathers, and did sit on the throne of their kingdom.

And Jonathan returned to Jerusalem with peace and gladness.

and moreover are glad for your glory.

And he entered into it on the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the hundred and seventy and first year, with praise and palm branches, and with harps, and with cymbals, and with viols, and with hymns, and with songs: because a great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.

And he ordained that they should keep that day every year with gladness. And the hill of the temple that was by the citadel he made stronger than before, and there he lived, himself and his men.

He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:

The ambassadors that were sent to our people made report to us of your glory and honor: and we were glad for their coming,

Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the month Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that you⌃ also may keep a feast of tabernacles, and a memorial of the fire which was given when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after that he had built both the temple and the altar.

they blessed the Lord, that made marvelous his own place; and the temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared.

To the worthy Jews, his fellow-citizens, Antiochus, king and general, wishes much joy and health and prosperity.