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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 will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great; and you will be a blessing.
So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Again they will speak this Word in the land of Judah, and in its cities, when I turn back their captivity, saying, Jehovah bless you, O home of righteousness, O holy mountain!
In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,
And He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your oxen and the wealth of your flock, in the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to give it to you.
And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
Reside in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands. And I will cause to rise My oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.
And I will bless those who bless you, and curse the one despising you. And in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.
And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed that Jehovah has blessed.
From the God of your father, may He help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and womb.
in that I am commanding you today to love Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands and His statutes, and His judgments, and you shall live and multiply, and Jehovah your God shall bless you in the land where you are going in, to possess it.
Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God.
Speak to the heart of Jerusalem; yea, cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has taken from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.
And it came about that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all he owned, Jehovah blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. And the blessing of Jehovah was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
And it shall be, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be made strong.
A Song of Ascents. They who trust in Jehovah shall be like Mount Zion; it is not shaken; it remains forever.
The mountains are all around her. Jerusalem; and Jehovah is all around His people, from this time and forever.
And Jehovah shall turn aside every sickness from you; and He will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will put them on all who hate you.
Blessed is Jehovah God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things.
And blessed is His glorious name forever; and the whole earth is filled with His glory! Amen and amen!
Behold, You shall call a nation You do not know; yea, a nation not knowing You shall run to You, because of Jehovah Your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified You.
Jehovah shall give up your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face. They shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
For they thought it good, and their debtors they are; for if the nations shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the fleshly things.
For so says Jehovah of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory, to the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.
And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham: “All the nations will be blessed” “in you.” Gen. 12:3
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall forget;
let my tongue cleave to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem above the head of my joy.
For little was yours before my presence, and it has spread out into a host. And Jehovah has blessed you at my foot. And now when shall I work for my house, I also?
For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from you; nor shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says Jehovah who has pity on you.
Jehovah remembers us; He will bless; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron;
He will bless those who fear Jehovah, the small and the great.
And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because you have obeyed My voice.
And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your Seed.
And Jehovah your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those that hate you, who have persecuted you.
But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may proclaim the excellencies” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6
only that there shall be no one in need among you. For Jehovah will greatly bless you in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you for an inheritance, to possess it,
So says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and will set up My banner to peoples. And they shall bring your sons in the bosom, and your daughters shall be lifted up on the shoulder.
Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for a dwelling-place to Him.
This is My rest till forever; I will dwell here; I have desired it.
A Song of Ascents. When Jehovah turned back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.
Then our mouth was full of laughter, and our tongue gave a ringing cry of joy; then they said among the nations, Jehovah will work great things with these.
And say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from the midst of the nations, there where they have gone, and will gather them from round about, and will bring them into their own land.
And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one King shall be for a king to all of them. And they shall not be two nations still. And they will not be divided into two kingdoms any more.
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem. All the day and all the night they shall not be silent always; you who remember Jehovah, let there not be a rest to you.
And do not give a rest to Him until He sets up and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
May the nations serve you and peoples bow to you; be a ruler to your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow to you, and cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.
There is a river, its channels gladden the city of God, the holy tabernacles of the Most High.
And I will take you from the nations and gather you out of all the lands and bring you into your land.
And I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols.
And I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
Make the place of your tent larger, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not spare, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left. And your seed shall possess nations, and ruined cities shall be lived in.
He has remembered His covenant forever; the Word He commanded to a thousand generations;
which He cut with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac;
and He made it stand to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for a perpetual covenant;
For the Sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the tents of Jacob.
Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
And I will pour out on the house of David, and on those living in Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they shall be bitter over Him, like the bitterness over the first-born.
And I will give them and the places around My hill to be a blessing. And I will bring down the shower in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.
And the tree of the field shall give its fruit, and the earth shall give its increase. And they shall be securely on their land. And they shall know that I am Jehovah when I have broken the staffs of their yoke, and have rescued them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Jehovah will add on to you; on to you and on your sons.
You are blessed to Jehovah, He who makes heavens and earth.
So says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and will set up My banner to peoples. And they shall bring your sons in the bosom, and your daughters shall be lifted up on the shoulder.
And kings shall be supporting you, and their princesses ones nursing you. They shall bow to you, faces down to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am Jehovah, by whom they who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.
Hear the Word of Jehovah, O nations, and declare in the isles from far away, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd feeding his flock.
To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. A Song. God rises up and His enemies are scattered; and those who hate Him flee from before His face.
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked ones perish in God’s presence.
O Jehovah, I have loved the abode of Your house, and the place of the dwelling of Your glory.
For from the rising of the sun until its going in, My name shall be great among the nations, and every place where incense shall be offered to My name; and a pure food offering; for My name shall be great among the nations, says Jehovah of Hosts.
And it shall be in the last days, the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it.
And many peoples shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the mount of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us from His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion the Law will go forth, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
and so all Israel will be saved, even as it has been written, “The One delivering will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
I call Heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, that you may live, you and your seed,
to love Jehovah your God, to listen to His voice, and to cling to Him. For He is your life, and the length of your days so that you may live in the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.
Give might to God over Israel; His majesty and His strength in the clouds.
O God, You are awesome out of Your holy places; the God of Israel is He who gives might and powers to the people. Blessed be God!