52 Bible Verses about Celebration

The memorial of the abundance of Thy goodness they send forth. And Thy righteousness they sing.

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

We come before His face with thanksgiving, With psalms we shout to Him.

'Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

Jehovah did great things with us, We have been joyful.

and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!

Observe the month of Abib -- and thou hast made a passover to Jehovah thy God, for in the month of Abib hath Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night;

And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations; -- a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast.

Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.

I have hated -- I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.

'The feast of booths thou dost make for thee seven days, in thine in-gathering of thy threshing-floor, and of thy wine-vat;

We sing of thy salvation, And in the name of our God set up a banner. Jehovah doth fulfil all thy requests.

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

And gone forth from them hath thanksgiving, And the voice of playful ones, And I have multiplied them and they are not few, And made them honourable, and they are not small.

but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,

This is the day Jehovah hath made, We rejoice and are glad in it.

Ascribe ye greatness to Jehovah with me, And we exalt His name together.

And the righteous rejoice, they exult before God, And they joy with gladness.

And his sons have gone and made a banquet -- the house of each in his day -- and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

Serve ye Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling.

and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these -- the two prophets -- did torment those dwelling upon the land.'

'So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

therefore they have called these days Purim -- by the name of the lot -- therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and what they have seen concerning this, and what hath come unto them,

and he said to him, 'A certain man made a great supper, and called many,

A voice of singing and salvation, Is in the tents of the righteous, The right hand of Jehovah is doing valiantly.

And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,

For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

And he saith to them, 'Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'

and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.

Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

And ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah, seven days in a year -- a statute age-during to your generations; in the seventh month ye keep it a feast.

'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,

Come hath the morning unto thee, O inhabitant of the land! Come hath the time, near is a day of trouble, And not the shouting of mountains.

Lo, on the mountains the feet of one proclaiming tidings, sounding peace! Celebrate, O Judah, thy festivals, complete thy vows, For add no more to pass over into thee doth the worthless, He hath been completely cut off!

'And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,

And David saith unto Michal, ' -- Before Jehovah, who fixed on me above thy father, and above all his house, to appoint me leader over the people of Jehovah, and over Israel, -- yea, I played before Jehovah;

Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

and having brought the fatted calf, kill it, and having eaten, we may be merry,

And it hath come to pass, That he who doth not go up of the families of the land unto Jerusalem, To bow himself to the King, Jehovah of Hosts, Even on them there is no shower.

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months, are to the house of Judah for joy and for rejoicing, and for pleasant appointed seasons, and the truth and the peace they have loved.

And it hath come to pass, Every one who hath been left of all the nations, Who are coming in against Jerusalem, They have also gone up from year to year, To bow themselves to the King, Jehovah of Hosts, And to celebrate the feast of the booths.

and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye have the passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened food is eaten.

And Solomon maketh, at that time, the festival -- and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entering in of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt -- before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days; fourteen days.