Thematic Bible: Joy of, departed


Thematic Bible



I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth
and every head to be shaved.
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son
and its outcome like a bitter day.

I will put an end to all her celebrations:
her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.

the light of a lamp
will never shine in you again;
and the voice of a groom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
All this will happen
because your merchants
were the nobility of the earth,
because all the nations were deceived
by your sorcery,

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.

In the streets they cry for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, for the land will become a desolate waste.

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.

I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them—the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.


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