Nehemiah 8:10

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Summary

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Go your way

1 Timothy 6:17

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The joy

General references

Deuteronomy 16:14

Bible References

Go your way

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and delight in his work. This also I saw was from the hand of God.

Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God.

This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance).

Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart for God now accepts your works.

Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

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You, the Levite and the alien among you will rejoice in all the good Jehovah your God has given you and your household.

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.

If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Give a portion to seven, and even to eight. You do not know what calamity will be upon the earth.

Give that which is within as charity. Then all things are clean for you.

The inhabitants of the earth will celebrate and rejoice over them. They will rejoice and send gifts to one another. This is because these two prophets tormented those who lived on the earth.

The joy

Jehovah is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted him, so I received help. My heart is triumphant and I thank him with my song.

Let Israel find joy in their creator. Let the people of Zion rejoice over their king.

A merry heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

He touched my mouth with it and said: See! This has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin forgiven (pardoned) (atoned for).

In that day you will say: I will praise you, O Jehovah. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

The desert will rejoice, and flowers will bloom in the wastelands.

I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah. I will exult in my God for he has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Be glad you children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes it to rain, the early rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

Out of severe affliction they have an abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounds in the riches of their generosity.

Three times I prayed to God about this and asked him to take it away.

I might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I have more!

General references

Enjoy yourselves at the festival along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities.