25 Bible Verses about Lack Of Rejoicing

Charity does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,

And they who weep are as though they did not weep. And they who rejoice are as though they did not rejoice. And they who buy are as though they did not possess.

Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come in it.

For this the Lord shall not rejoice over their young men, nor shall He have mercy on their orphans and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod of your striking is broken. For a viper comes forth from the root of a snake, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all her multitude.

The encirclement has come to you, O dwellers of the land. The time has come, the day of tumult is near, and not a shout of the mountains.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that joy is heaviness.

And You cast off my soul from peace; I have forgotten blessedness.

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

The gladness of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends; the joy of the harp ceases.

A crying for wine is in the streets; all joy is darkened, the gladness in the land has gone.

And gladness and joy are gathered out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing and no shouting. The treader shall tread out no wine in the presses; I have made their shouting to cease.

For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause the voice of mirth to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Then I will cause the voice of gladness to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle.

And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab. And I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses; none shall tread the grapes with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God; you have loved a reward on every grain floor.

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

The vine is dried up, and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.

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

Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things;

Yet do not rejoice in this, that the evil spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.