25 Bible Verses about Lack Of Rejoicing

does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a viper, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.

The doom is come unto thee, inhabitant of the land; the time is come, the day is near, tumult, and not the joyous cry from the mountains.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is sadness.

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.

The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;

And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry of the winepress to cease.

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

And I will cause to perish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

And joy and gladness is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: they shall no more tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.

Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.

Make me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,

Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.

Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.