25 Bible Verses about Lack Of Rejoicing
Most Relevant Verses
Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth.
those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,
Therefore the Lord does not rejoice
over Israel’s young men
and has no compassion
on its fatherless and widows,
for everyone is a godless evildoer,
and every mouth speaks folly.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,
because the rod of the one who struck you is broken.
For a viper will come from the root of a snake,
and from its egg comes a flying serpent.
The time has come; the day has arrived.
Let the buyer not rejoice
and the seller not mourn,
for wrath is on all her masses.
Doom has come on you,
inhabitants of the land.
The time has come; the day is near.
There will be panic on the mountains
and not celebration.
My soul has been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is.
The joyful tambourines have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.
In the streets they cry for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard;
no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.
No one tramples grapes in the winepresses.
I have put an end to the shouting.
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 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.
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 and celebration are taken from the fertile field
and from the land of Moab.
I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses;
no one will tread with shouts of joy.
The shouting is not a shout of joy.
I will put an end to all her celebrations:
her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.
Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do,
for you have acted promiscuously, leaving your God.
You have loved the wages of a prostitute
on every grain-threshing floor.
The grapevine is dried up,
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate, the date palm, and the apple—
all the trees of the orchard—have withered.
Indeed, human joy has dried up.
Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,
However, don’t rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
