Nehemiah 8:10

Ezra Reads The Law To The People

⁹ And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard th ¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our LORD; neither be ye grieved, for the joy of LORD is your strength. ¹¹ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be silent, for the day is holy, neither be ye grieved.

Go Your Way

Joy of the Lord

Let There Be

Ezra

Jehovah

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Deuteronomy 26:11-13

And thou shall rejoice in all the good which LORD thy God has given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is in the midst of thee.

Esther 9:19

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

Esther 9:22

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies. And the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day, that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending

Psalm 28:7-8

LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him.

Proverbs 17:22

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

Job 31:16-18

If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel rejoice in him who made him. Let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor. [It] is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Isaiah 6:7-8

And he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin forgiven.

Isaiah 12:1-3

And in that day thou shall say, I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou were angry with me. Thine anger is turned away and thou comfort me.

Isaiah 35:1-4

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad. And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in LORD. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride

Joel 2:23

Be glad then, ye sons of Zion, and rejoice in LORD your God, for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first [month].

Luke 11:41

But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you.

2 Corinthians 8:2

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, even from the depth of their poverty, abounded for the wealth of their generosity,

2 Corinthians 12:8-9

I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me.

Philippians 3:4

Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more:

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

Revelation 11:10

And those who dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and will celebrate, and will give gifts to each other, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.