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VERSES ABOUT JOY
Think about it: the joy of the Lord doesn't just fill you with strength, it brings us all together. It's a joy that's not meant to be kept to yourself; it needs to be shared. Just like the Israelites were instructed to celebrate and share what they had with each other, you can spread the joy of the Lord with everyone you know.
This joy challenges you to love your neighbor and share the Gospel. When your heart is joyful in God, you are strong and empowered to spread that joy throughout your community. It's a lasting joy, something no one can take away.
Psalm 98:4-6 says, "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn— shout for joy before the Lord, the King." You can find so many verses like this that talk about the joy of our God.
I will make of you a great nation and will bless you. I will make your name respected, and you will be a blessing.
The LORD of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, proclaims: When I bring my people back from captivity, they will once again utter these words in the land and towns of Judah: The LORD bless you, righteous dwelling place, holy mountain.
On that day, Israel will be the third along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing at the center of the world.
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your wombs and the fruit of your fertile land—all your grain, your wine, your oil, and the offspring of your cattle and flocks—upon the very fertile land that he swore to your ancestors to give to you.
Aaron then raised his hands toward the people and blessed them. After performing the purification offering, the entirely burned offering, and the well-being sacrifice, he came down.
Stay in this land as an immigrant, and I will be with you and bless you because I will give all of these lands to you and your descendants. I will keep my word, which I gave to your father Abraham.
Israel blessed them that day, saying, “Through you, Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So Israel put Ephraim before Manasseh.
I will bless those who bless you, those who curse you I will curse; all the families of the earth will be blessed because of you.”
Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their descendants among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that they are a people blessed by the LORD.
by God, your father, who supports you, by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings from the skies above and blessings from the deep sea below, blessings from breasts and womb.
If you obey the LORD your God’s commandments that I’m commanding you right now by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments, his regulations, and his case laws, then you will live and thrive, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
Comfort, comfort my people! says your God.
Speak compassionately to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her compulsory service has ended, that her penalty has been paid, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins!
From the time he appointed Joseph head of his household and of everything he had, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household because of Joseph. The LORD blessed everything he had, both in the household and in the field.
Just as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so now I will deliver you; you will be a blessing. Don’t fear, but be strong.
The people who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion: never shaken, lasting forever.
Mountains surround Jerusalem. That’s how the LORD surrounds his people from now until forever from now!
The LORD will remove all sickness from you. As for all those dreadful Egyptian diseases you experienced, the Lord won’t put them on you but will inflict them on all who hate you.
Bless the LORD God, the God of Israel— the only one who does wondrous things!
Bless God’s glorious name forever; let his glory fill all the earth! Amen and Amen!
Look, you will call a nation you don’t know, a nation you don’t know will run to you because of the LORD your God, the holy one of Israel, who has glorified you.
The LORD will defeat any enemies who attack you. They will come against you from one direction but will run for their lives away from you in seven different directions.
They were happy to do this, and they are actually in debt to God’s people in Jerusalem. If the Gentiles got a share of the Jewish people’s spiritual resources, they ought to minister to them with material resources.
The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims (after his glory sent me) concerning the nations plundering you: Those who strike you strike the pupil of my eye.
But when it saw ahead of time that God would make the Gentiles righteous on the basis of faith, scripture preached the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All the Gentiles will be blessed in you”.
Jerusalem! If I forget you, let my strong hand wither!
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t make Jerusalem my greatest joy.
While in my care, what little you had has multiplied a great deal. The LORD blessed you wherever I took your livestock. Now, when will I be able to work for my own household too?”
The mountains may shift, and the hills may be shaken, but my faithful love won’t shift from you, and my covenant of peace won’t be shaken, says the LORD, the one who pities you.
The LORD remembers us and will bless us: God will bless the house of Israel; God will bless the house of Aaron;
God will bless those who honor the LORD— from the smallest to the greatest.
All the nations of the earth will be blessed because of your descendants, because you obeyed me.”
Your descendants will become like the dust of the earth; you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. Every family of earth will be blessed because of you and your descendants.
The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and chase you.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are God’s own possession. You have become this people so that you may speak of the wonderful acts of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light.
Of course there won’t be any poor persons among you because the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,
The LORD God says: Look, I will raise my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will lift up my signal. They will bring your sons in their arms, and will carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Because the LORD chose Zion; he wanted it for his home.
“This is my residence forever. I will live here because I wanted it for myself.
When the LORD changed Zion’s circumstances for the better, it was like we had been dreaming.
Our mouths were suddenly filled with laughter; our tongues were filled with joyful shouts. It was even said, at that time, among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them!”
speak to them, This is what the LORD God says: I will take the Israelites from among the nations where they’ve gone, I will gather them from all around, and I will bring them to their fertile land.
I will make them into a single nation in the land on Israel’s highlands. There will be just one king for all of them. They will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms.
Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I have appointed sentinels. Continually, all day and all night, they won’t keep silent. You who call on the LORD, don’t rest,
and don’t allow God to rest until he establishes Jerusalem, and makes it the praise of the earth.
May the nations serve you, may peoples bow down to you. Be the most powerful man among your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Those who curse you will be cursed, and those who bless you will be blessed.”
I will take you from the nations, I will gather you from all the countries, and I will bring you to your own fertile land.
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be cleansed of all your pollution. I will cleanse you of all your idols.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stony heart from your body and replace it with a living one,
Enlarge the site of your tent, and stretch out the drapes of your dwellings; don’t hold back. Lengthen your tent ropes and strengthen your stakes.
To the right and to the left you will burst out, and your children will possess the nations’ land and settle their desolate cities.
God remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations,
which he made with Abraham, the solemn pledge he swore to Isaac.
God set it up as binding law for Jacob, as an eternal covenant for Israel,
God’s foundation is set on the holy mountains.
The LORD loves Zion’s gates more than all of Jacob’s houses combined.
Glorious things are said about you, the city of God! Selah
but I will pour out a spirit of grace and mercy on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look to me concerning the one whom they pierced; they will mourn over him like the mourning for an only child. They will mourn bitterly over him like the bitter mourning over the death of an oldest child.
I will give them and those around my hill a blessing by sending the rain in its season. They will be rains of blessing.
The trees in the field will bear fruit, and the earth will yield its harvest. They will be safe on their fertile land, and they will know that I am the LORD when I break the bars of their yoke and deliver them from those who enslaved them.
May the LORD add to your numbers— both you and your children.
May you be blessed by the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth!
The LORD God says: Look, I will raise my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will lift up my signal. They will bring your sons in their arms, and will carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Kings will be your attendants, and their queens your nursemaids. With faces to the ground they will bow down to you; they will lick the dust from your feet. You will know that I am the LORD; the one who hopes in me won’t be ashamed.
Listen to the LORD’s word, you nations, and announce it to the distant islands: The one who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them safe, as a shepherd his flock.
Let God rise up; let his enemies scatter; let those who hate him run scared before him!
Like smoke is driven away, drive them away! Like wax melting before fire, let the wicked perish before God!
Nevertheless, from sunrise to sunset, my name will be great among the nations. Incense and a pure grain offering will be offered everywhere in my name, because my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of heavenly forces.
In the days to come the mountain of the LORD’s house will be the highest of the mountains. It will be lifted above the hills; peoples will stream to it.
Many nations will go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the LORD’s mountain, to the house of Jacob’s God so that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in God’s paths.” Instruction will come from Zion; the LORD’s word from Jerusalem.
In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion. ” “He will remove ungodly behavior from Jacob. ”
I call heaven and earth as my witnesses against you right now: I have set life and death, blessing and curse before you. Now choose life—so that you and your descendants will live—
by loving the LORD your God, by obeying his voice, and by clinging to him. That’s how you will survive and live long on the fertile land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors: to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Recognize how strong God is! His majesty extends over Israel; his strength is in the clouds.
You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries— the God of Israel who gives strength and power to his people! Bless God!