Your worshippers will see me and be glad; because my hope has been in your word.

For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.

I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.

He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.

Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.

A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.

Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.

As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.

Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.

As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.

Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.

In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.

I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;

Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.

His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.

The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.

And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.

Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves to their windows?

Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.

And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:

And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.