And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.
Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart; but when he saw mordecai in the king's doorway, and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai.
And Mordecai went out from before the king, dressed in king-like robes of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold and clothing of purple and the best linen: and all the town of Shushan gave loud cries of joy.
And the Jews had light and joy and honour.
And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.
This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.
But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and on the fifteenth day they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.
So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.
As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.
That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the holy One.
Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.
The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.
That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;
When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.
Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.
And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.
For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;
Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.
For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.
And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.
Let those who are on my side give cries of joy; let them ever say, The Lord be praised, for he has pleasure in the peace of his servant.
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.
Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
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.
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house.
<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.
Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King.
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.
Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
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.
But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.
My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;
Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.
But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.
The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
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.
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.
Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.
But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob.
You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.
In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.
In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.
For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.
How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?
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.
Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.
Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together,
Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.
Come into his doors with joy, and into his house with praise; give him honour, blessing his name.
Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:
And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:
So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.
The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.
This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.
I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints give cries of joy.
Her priests will be clothed with salvation; and her saints will give cries of joy.
If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.
Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.
Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.
When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.
Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.
Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
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:
A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.
I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.
Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
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.
Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.
Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
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.
So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.
Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the holy One of Israel among you.
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.
You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?
And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.
And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One 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.
For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
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.
Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.
For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.
I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.
Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.
And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.
To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.
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.
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