I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;
Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.
Be glad in the Lord, O doers of righteousness; for praise is beautiful for the upright.
My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.
And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.
Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.
Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.
I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.
Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great.
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.
There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.
God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn.
Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions.
Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.
The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.
God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.
Moab is my washpot; over edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.
The upright will be glad in the Lord and have hope in him; and all the lovers of righteousness will give him glory.
Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.
Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.
The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
<To the chief music-maker. A Song. A Psalm.> Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth:
O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)
But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.
Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.
The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.
Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.
<To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?
Make glad the soul of your servant; for it is lifted up to you, O Lord.
Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name.
You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.
Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.
For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.
O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;
Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,
The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.
Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.
Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.
Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.
With wind instruments and the sound of the horn, make a glad cry before the Lord, the King.
Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together,
<A psalm of Praise.> Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.
Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.
And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:
Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.
The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.
This is the word of the holy God: I will be glad; I will make Shechem a heritage, measuring out the valley of Succoth.
Moab is my washpot; on edom is the resting-place of my shoe; over Philistia will I send out a glad cry.
They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
Your worshippers will see me and be glad; because my hope has been in your word.
<A song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.
A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.
In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.
And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.
The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.
You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.
Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.
For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.
But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.
And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.
Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:
And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.
But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.
For the Lord has said, Make a glad song for Jacob and give a cry on the top of the mountains: give the news, give praise, and say, The Lord has given salvation to his people, even to the rest of Israel.
Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.
Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces with him, then they were glad.
All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.
Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;
Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.
The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.
Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.
The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:
For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel;
This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:
For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:
Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God.
Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.
Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.
And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.
Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.
Make melody, O daughter of Zion; give a loud cry, O Israel; be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.
Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
And on the way, Jesus came to them, saying, Be glad. And they came and put their hands on his feet, and gave him worship.
For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly.
David himself gives him the name of Lord; and how then is he his son? And the common people gave ear to him gladly.
And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
My spirit is glad in God my Saviour.
Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.
Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.
And when Jesus went back, the people were glad to see him, for they were all waiting for him.
Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.
And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.
And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.
And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
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