For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:
My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
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.
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.
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 in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
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.
For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.
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.
And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.
Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.
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.
How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!
And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
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 joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.
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;
For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:
And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.
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.
The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
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.
You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?
Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?
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.
You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.
Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.
This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.
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.
Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.
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.
And when they saw the star they were full of joy.
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;
The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.
And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
And they went away quickly, with fear and great joy, to give his disciples the news.
And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.
And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.
And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:
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 those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.
And the seventy came back with joy, saying, Lord, even the evil spirits are under our power in your name.
In that same hour he was full of joy in the holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
And when he said these things, those who were against him were shamed, and all the people were full of joy because of the great things which were done by him.
And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.
I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.
Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.
For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy.
And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen;
And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?
And they gave him worship and went back to Jerusalem with great joy.
He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.
He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.
I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.
Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.
Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.
And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.
And for this cause my heart was glad and my tongue full of joy, and my flesh will be resting in hope:
You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.
And there was much joy in that town.
And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away; and the Ethiopian saw him no more, for he went on his way full of joy.
And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside.
And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.
But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
So they, being sent on their way by the church, went through Phoenicia and Samaria, giving news of the salvation of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the brothers.
And they sent a letter by them, saying, The Apostles and the older brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and syria and Cilicia, may joy be with you:
And he took them into his house and gave them food, and he was full of joy, having faith in God with all his family.
Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.
He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.
Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
And again he says, Take part, you Gentiles, in the joy of his people.
Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.
For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.
And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;
It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.
And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.
My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.
So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.
It gives me great joy to see you answering to my good opinion of you in every way.
How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.
For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
And in all my prayers for you all, making my request with joy,
And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;
Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;
And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.
So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:
So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;
Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;
For though I am not present in the flesh, still I am with you in the spirit, seeing with joy your order, and your unchanging faith in Christ.
And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?
For you are our glory and our joy.
For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
Have joy at all times.
Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.
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 more than on the heads of those who are with you.
You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,
To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:
But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.
It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.
Having much to say to you, it is not my purpose to put it all down with paper and ink: but I am hoping to come to you, and to have talk with you face to face, so that your joy may be full.
For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,
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