He saw that his resting place was good
and that the land was pleasant,
so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load
and became a forced laborer.

I’m now 80 years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

The boundary lines have fallen for me
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise.

A Davidic song of ascents.How good and pleasant it is
when brothers live together in harmony!

Hallelujah!
How good it is to sing to our God,
for praise is pleasant and lovely.

Her ways are pleasant,
and all her paths, peaceful.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid;
you will lie down, and your sleep will be pleasant.

The Lord detests the plans of an evil man,
but pleasant words are pure.

Anyone with a wise heart is called discerning,
and pleasant speech increases learning.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb:
sweet to the taste and health to the body.

You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.

How beautiful you are and how pleasant,
my love, with such delights!

At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you so that it may go well with us. We will certainly obey the voice of the Lord our God!”

They sacrifice on the mountaintops,
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

“I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”