25 Bible Verses about Lack Of Rejoicing
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Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth.
Those who weep should be like those who do not weep. And those who rejoice should be like those who do not rejoice, and those who buy like those who do not possess.
That is why Jehovah did not rejoice in their young people, nor show compassion to their orphans and widows. Everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke wickedness (foolishness) (vileness). In all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is stretched out still (ready to apply his power).
The rod that beat you is broken, but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon.
The time is coming. The day is near. Buyers will not rejoice, and sellers will not mourn, because my fury will be against the whole crowd.
Doom has come upon you who dwell in the land. The time has come, the day is near. There is panic, not joy, upon the mountains.
Peace has been removed far away from me. I do not remember what good is.
The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
The joyful sound of tambourines ceases. The noise of revelers and the delight of the harp cease.
In the streets they cry out for wine. Joy turns to gloom and rejoicing is banished from the earth.
Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards. No one sings or shouts in the vineyards! No one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.
This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I am going to put a stop to the sounds of joy and happiness and the sounds of brides and grooms in this place. This will happen in your lifetime, even as you watch.'
I will cause the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem. The land will become a ruin.
I will take from them the sounds of joy and happiness, the sounds of brides and grooms, the sound of mills, and the light of lamps.
Joy and gladness are taken from the fruitful orchards and fields and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the wine presses. No one walks on the grapes with shouts of joy. There are shouts, but they are not shouts of joy.
I will also cause all her exaltation to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
O Israel, do not rejoice. Do not celebrate as pagan nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor.
The vine and the fig tree fail. The pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field have dried up. Joy has withered away from the sons of men.
You did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things.
Do not rejoice about this that the spirits are subject to you. Rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.
