845 verses about Joy

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.

And they kept eight days with gladness in the manner of the feast of tabernacles, remembering how that not long before, during the feast of tabernacles, they were wandering in the mountains and in the caves after the manner of wild beasts.

And when the engagement was over, and they were returning again with joy, they recognized Nicanor lying dead in full armor;

Yes, all the kings of Israel held not such a passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all Israel that were present in their dwelling place at Jerusalem.

it turns also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man remembers neither sorrow nor debt:

to go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days.

And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving to the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord.

Ezra 3:12, 13. Also of the priests the Levites, and of the heads of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with lamentation and great weeping.

But many with trumpets and joy shouted with loud voice,

insomuch that the people heard not the trumpets for the weeping of the people: for the multitude sounded marvelously, so that it was heard afar off.

And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord,

for the day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honor.

So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy; be not sorrowful.

Then they went their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give portions to those who had nothing, and to make great cheer;

Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly.

The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.

This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet.

When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home.

Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth.

Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.

The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and bade him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.

Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.

Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.

Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.

But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgivings, and psalms.

They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.

King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.

Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed.

slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy.

They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel.

They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness.

These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.

I take to witness the grace of the people that shall come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness: and though they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they shall believe the thing that I say.

Mother, embrace your children; I will bring them out with gladness like a dove; establish their feet; for I have chosen you, says the Lord.

and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill your children with joy.

Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of tribulation and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.

Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says the Lord.

Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I call to witness my savior openly.

O receive that which is given you of the Lord, and be joyful, giving thanks to him that has called you to heavenly kingdoms.

For immediately there came forth great and innumerable fruit, and manifold pleasures for the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of most exquisite smell: and this was done the third day.

For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and shall rejoice those who remain four hundred years.

And he answered me, and said, Weigh within yourself the things that you have thought, for he that has what is hard to get rejoices over him that has what is plentiful.

First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.

The fifth order, they rejoice, seeing how they have now escaped from that which is corruptible, and how they shall inherit that which is to come, while they see moreover the straitness and the painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large room which they shall receive with joy and immortality.

The seventh order, which is greater than all the aforesaid orders, because they shall rejoice with confidence, and because they shall be bold without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom in their lifetine they served, and from whom they shall receive their reward in glory.

so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over those who are persuaded to salvation.

but I will rejoice over the framing of the righteous, their pilgrimage also, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.

sorrows are passed away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality.

And it came to pass after thirty years that God heard me your handmaid, and looked upon my low estate, and considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I rejoiced in him greatly, I and my husband, and all my neighbors: and we gave great honor to the Mighty.

For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been preserved throughout my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the end, even the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken to you from the beginning.

Be of good comfort, O Israel; and be not sorrowful, you house of Jacob:

Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.

For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue.

And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go.

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

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13

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