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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.
“And I shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing!
and shall love you and bless you and increase you, and shall bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
Aharon then lifted up his hand toward the people and blessed them, and came down from making the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
“Sojourn in this land. And I shall be with you and bless you, for I give all these lands to you and your seed. And I shall establish the oath which I swore to Aḇ
“And I shall bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you. And in you all the clans of the earth shall be blessed.”
“And their seed shall be known among the gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed יהוה has blessed.”
in that I am commanding you today to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in His ways, and to guard His commands, and His laws, and His right-rulings. And you shall live and increase, and יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in the land which you go to possess.
“Comfort, comfort My people!” says your Elohim.
“Speak to the heart of Yerushalayim, and cry out to her, that her hard service is completed, that her crookedness is pardoned, that she has received from the hand of יהוה double for all her sins.”
And it came to be, from the time that he appointed him over his house and all that he had, that יהוה blessed the Mitsrite’s house for Yosĕ
Those who trust in יהוה Are like Mount Tsiyon – It is not shaken, it remains forever.
As the mountains surround Yerushalayim, So יהוה surrounds His people, Now and forever.
“And יהוה shall turn away from you all sickness and put on you none of the evil diseases of Mitsrayim which you have known, but He shall put them on all those who hate you.
Blessed be יהוה Elohim, Elohim of Yisra’ĕ
And blessed be His esteemed Name forever! And let all the earth Be filled with His esteem. Amĕ
“See, a nation you do not know you shall call, and a nation who does not know you run to you, because of יהוה your Elohim, and the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕ
“יהוה causes your enemies who rise against you to be smitten before your face – they come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
For they were pleased, and they are their debtors. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual matters, their duty is also to serve them in material matters.
For thus said יהוה of hosts (for the sake of esteem He sent me to the gentiles which plunder you): “For he who touches you touches the apple of My eye.
And the Scripture, having foreseen that Elohim would declare right the nations by belief, announced the Good News to Aḇ
If I forget you, O Yerushalayim, Let my right hand forget.
Let my tongue cleave to my palate, If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Yerushalayim Above my chief joy.
“For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and יהוה has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house too?”
“For though the mountains be removed and the hills be shaken, My kindness is not removed from you, nor is My covenant of peace shaken,” said יהוה, who has compassion on you.
יהוה has remembered us; He blesses us; He blesses the house of Yisra’ĕ
He blesses those who fear יהוה, The small and the great.
“And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
“And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.
and יהוה your Elohim shall put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,
“Only, there should be no poor among you. For יהוה does greatly bless you in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess as an inheritance,
Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I lift My hand up to the gentiles, and set up My banner for the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters carried on their shoulders;
For יהוה has chosen Tsiyon, He has desired it for His dwelling:
“This is My place of rest forever; Here I dwell, for I have desired it.
When יהוה turns back the captivity of Tsiyon, We shall be like dreamers.
Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing, Then shall they say among the gentiles, “יהוה has done great deeds for them.”
“And speak to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the children of Yisra’ĕ
“And I shall make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra’ĕ
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Yerushalayim, all the day and all the night, continually, who are not silent. You who remember יהוה, give yourselves no rest,
and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Yerushalayim a praise in the earth.
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you!”
A river whose streams Make glad the city of Elohim, The set-apart dwelling of the Most High.
“And I shall take you from among the gentiles, and I shall gather you out of all lands, and I shall bring you into your own land.
“And I shall sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean – from all your filthiness and from all your idols I cleanse you.
“And I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I shall give you a heart of flesh,
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not. Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
“For you shall break forth to the right and to the left, and your seed inherit the nations, and make the deserted cities inhabited.
He has remembered His covenant forever, The Word He commanded, for a thousand generations,
The covenant He made with Aḇ
And established it to Yaʽ
His foundation is In the set-apart mountains.
יהוה loves the gates of Tsiyon More than all the dwellings of Yaʽ
Esteemed matters are spoken of you, O city of Elohim: Selah.
“And I shall make them and the places all around My hill a blessing, and shall cause showers to come down in their season – showers of blessing they are.
“And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land. And they shall know that I am יהוה, when I have broken the bars of their yoke. And I shall deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them,
יהוה give you increase more and more, You and your children.
You are blessed by יהוה, Who made the heavens and earth.
Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I lift My hand up to the gentiles, and set up My banner for the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters carried on their shoulders;
“And sovereigns shall be your foster fathers, and their sovereignesses your nursing mothers. They bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am יהוה – those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.”
“Hear the word of יהוה, O gentiles, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, ‘He who scattered Yisra’ĕ
Elohim arises, His enemies are scattered. And those who hate Him flee before Him!
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, The wrong perish before Elohim.
“For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My Name is great among nations. And in every place incense is presented to My Name, and a clean offering. For My Name is great among nations,” said יהוה of hosts.
And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of יהוה is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.
And many peoples shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of יהוה, to the House of the Elohim of Yaʽ
“I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed,
to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇ
Ascribe strength to Elohim; His excellence is over Yisra’ĕ
O Elohim, awesome from Your set-apart places, The Ě