Nehemiah 8:10

Ezra Reads The Law To The People

⁹ Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of the people, "This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Do not mourn nor weep." For all of the people wept when they heard the words of the law. ¹⁰ Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge." ¹¹ So the Levites silenced all of the people, saying, "Silence, for this day is holy. Do not be grieved."

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Joy of the Lord

Let There Be

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Deuteronomy 26:11-13

And you shall celebrate with all of the bounty that Yahweh your God gave to you and to your family, you and the Levite and the alien who [is] in your midst.

Esther 9:19

Therefore the Jews in the rural [areas], living in the rural towns, made the fourteenth month of Adar a day of joy and feasting, a festive day of giving gifts to each other.

Esther 9:22

as the day that the Jews {found relief} from their enemies, and the month which changed for them from sorrow to joy, and from a mourning ceremony to a {festive day}; to make them days of feasting and joy, and giving gifts to each other and to the poor.

Psalm 28:7-8

Yahweh [is] my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

Job 31:16-18

"If I have withheld [the] desire of [the] poor from [them], or I have caused [the] widow's eyes to fail,

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel be glad in its maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their king.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God!

Ecclesiastes 3:13

And for anyone to eat and drink, that is, {to enjoy the fruit of all his toil}, this also is a gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and {to enjoy} all [the fruit of] the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him--for this [is] his lot.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Divide your share in seven or in eight, for you do not know what disaster will happen on the earth.

Song of Songs 5:1

I have come to my garden, my sister bride, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk! Eat, O friends! {Drink and become drunk [with] love}!

Isaiah 6:7-8

And he touched my mouth, and he said, "Look! This has touched your lips and has removed your guilt, and your sin is annulled."

Isaiah 12:1-3

And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.

Isaiah 35:1-4

Wilderness and dry land shall be glad, and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.

Isaiah 61:10

I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me [with] garments of salvation, he has covered me [with the] robe of righteousness, as bridegroom adorns [himself] [with] a head wrap like a priest, and as bride adorns herself [with] her jewelry.

Joel 2:23

Be glad, children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for [your] righteousness, and he has {poured down} for you rainwater, [the] autumn and spring rains, as before.

Luke 11:41

But give [as] charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

2 Corinthians 8:2

that with a great ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and the extreme depth of their poverty have overflowed to the wealth of their generosity.

2 Corinthians 12:8-9

Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would depart from me.

Philippians 3:4

although I [could] have confidence even in the flesh.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

Revelation 11:10

And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.