Esther 8:16
For the Jews, there was light and gladness, joy and honor.
Psalm 97:11
Light [is] sown for the righteous, and joy for [the] upright in heart.
Esther 4:1-3
Mordecai learned all that had been done and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. And he went through the middle of the city and cried out a loud and bitter cry;
Esther 4:16
"Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink [for] three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which [is] not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.
Esther 9:17
[This was] on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. [They] rested on the fourteenth [day] and made it a day of feasting and joy.
Psalm 18:28
For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.
Psalm 30:5-11
For [there is] a moment in his anger; [there is] a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning [comes] rejoicing.
Psalm 112:4
[His] light rises in the darkness for the upright; [he is] gracious and compassionate and righteous.
Proverbs 4:18-19
But the path of the righteous ones [is] like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day {is full}.
Proverbs 11:10
When good [is with] the righteous, [the] city rejoices, and with the perishing of the wicked, jubilation.
Isaiah 30:29-30
{You shall have a song} as [in] [the] night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.
Isaiah 35:10
And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come [to] Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy [shall be] on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake [them], and sorrow and sighing shall flee.