108 Bible verses about Delighting in the Lord

Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." Think about what it really means to delight in something. It's about experiencing deep happiness and satisfaction in what brings you true joy. And the Bible teaches us that true joy is only found in God.

When you delight in God, it puts everything else into perspective. Your worries and struggles become smaller because you recognize that He's ultimately in control. It strengthens your relationship with Him, draws you closer to His presence, and helps you trust His promises completely.

Delighting in God also cultivates an attitude of gratitude. You start to see all the good things in your life as blessings from His love and care. It doesn't mean ignoring your responsibilities or pretending challenges don't exist. Instead, it's about finding the strength and wisdom in Him to face them with confidence and a positive outlook.

Truly, delighting in God leads to a full and meaningful life. It's where you'll find genuine satisfaction and discover the purpose He has for you. So, in the midst of all the demands and distractions of this world, remember that only in God will you find the delight your heart truly longs for.

I will delight myself in Your statutes. I will not forget Your Word.

Your words were found and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart. For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

He rolled on Jehovah, let Him deliver Him; let Him rescue Him, since He delights in Him.

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice!

You will make Me know the way of life. In Your presence is fullness of joys; at Your right hand are pleasures forever.

Rejoicing I will rejoice in Jehovah. My soul shall be joyful in my God. For He clothed me with garments of salvation; He put on me the robe of righteousness, even as a bridegroom puts on his head-dress, and as a bride puts on her ornaments.

And delight yourself in Jehovah, that He may give you your heart’s desire.

I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My inmost being.

But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah, and he meditates in His Law day and night.

Praise Jah! Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, delighting greatly in His commands.

And Hannah prayed and said: My heart has exulted in Jehovah; my horn has been high in Jehovah. My mouth has been large over my enemies; for I have rejoiced in Your salvation.

Then he said to them, Go eat the fat, and drink of the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your refuge.

One thing I have asked from Jehovah, it I will seek: my dwelling in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the delight of Jehovah, and to inquire in His temple.

And they seized strong cities and a rich land, and occupied houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards and oliveyards and very many food trees. And they ate, and were sated, and became fat, and lived luxuriously in Your great goodness.

Taste and see that Jehovah is good; blessed is the man seeking refuge in Him.

then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah. And I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and make you eat with the inheritance of your father Jacob. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

Make me walk in the way of Your commands, for in it I delight.

I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will praise Your name, O Most High,

for then you will delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.

If Your Law was not my delight, then I had perished in my affliction.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.

He takes no delight in the strength of the horse, and not any pleasure in the legs of a man.

Why do you weigh out silver for that which is not bread, and your labor for what is not to satisfaction? Listening, listen to Me and eat the good; and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

So says Jehovah to this people: So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; even Jehovah will not be pleased with them. He will now recall their iniquity and call their sins to account.

then I was at His side, like a master workman; and I was His delights day by day, rejoicing before Him at every time;rejoicing in the world, His earth; and My delight was with the sons of men.

Who is a God like You, lifting off iniquity and passing by the transgression of the remnant of His possession? He does not make strong His anger forever, for He delights in mercy.

And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I have loved.

I have inherited Your testimonies forever; for they are the joy of my heart.

And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope, in power of the Holy Spirit.

The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart. The command of Jehovah is pure, giving light to the eyes.

The steps of a man are established from Jehovah; and He will delight in his way.

whom having not known, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing, you exult with joy unspeakable and being glorified,

I have spoken these things to you that My joy may abide in you, and your joy may be made full.

You are my shelter and my shield; I hope in Your Word.

For You have made me glad with Your work, O Jehovah; I will sing out in the works of Your hands.

Worship Jehovah with gladness; come before His face with joyful singing.

For Jehovah takes pleasure in His people; He beautifies the humble with salvation.

Jehovah your God is a mighty One in your midst; He will save. He will rejoice over you with joy; He is silent in His love. He rejoices over you with a joyful shout.

I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies as over all riches.

Be glad in Jehovah and rejoice, you righteous ones; and all the upright in heart, give a ringing cry of joy.

This is the day Jehovah has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips,when I remember You upon my bed. I will meditate on You in the night watches.

Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah; yea, He has become my salvation.And you shall draw waters out of the wells of salvation with joy.

yet I will exult in Jehovah; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

For our heart rejoices in Him because we trust in His holy name.

I rejoice at Your Word, as one who finds great plunder.

and not only so, but also glorying in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received the reconciliation.

For the rest, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you truly is not troublesome to me, but safe for you.

And I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses in my soul,

Be glad in Jehovah, O righteous ones; give thanks to the memory of His holiness.

Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and gladness are in His place.

For You have set Him to be blessings forever; You have rejoiced Him in the joy of Your face.

Yea, Jehovah, in the path of Your judgments we awaited You; for Your name and for Your memory is the desire of our soul.

To the chief musician. A Contemplation for the sons of Korah. As the deer pants after the channels of water, so my soul pants after You, O God.

Rejoice always.Pray without ceasing.In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it will rejoice in His salvation.

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand; I have chosen to stand at the threshold in the house of my God rather than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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

O the blessedness of the people knowing the joyful sound; O Jehovah, they shall walk in the light of Your face.They shall rejoice in Your name always; and they are exalted in Your righteousness.

and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Your testimonies also are my delight, the man of my counsel.

My meditations on Him shall be sweet; I will be glad in Jehovah.

How sweet are Your words to my palate! More than honey to my mouth!

My soul has kept Your testimonies, and I love them very much.

to see the good of joy, Your elect to rejoice in the joy of Your nation, to glory with Your inheritance.

in hope, rejoicing; in distress, enduring; in prayer, steadfastly continuing;

But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; yea, my heart greatly rejoices, and I will thank Him with my song.

Until now you asked nothing in My name; ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be filled.

He satisfies the thirsty soul, and He fills the hungry soul with good.

My lips shall give a ringing cry of joy, for I will sing praise to You; also my soul which you have redeemed.

And we write these things to you, that your joy may be full.

Distress and anguish have found me; Your commands are my delight.

Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help; his hope is on Jehovah his God;

Blessed are the peoples that are so; blessed are the peoples whose God is Jehovah!

Jehovah reigns! Let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of islands be glad.

And ones being ransomed of Jehovah shall return and enter Zion with a ringing cry of joy. and with everlasting joy on their head; gladness and joy shall reach them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee.

Their heart is like fat, without feeling; I delight in Your Law.

A joyful heart makes a good face, but by pain of heart the spirit is stricken.

But, be glad and rejoice till forever in what I create. For, behold, I create in Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people. And the voice of weeping and the voice of crying shall no longer be heard in her.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have loosed my sackcloth and have clothed me with gladness.

The thief does not come except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life and may have it abundantly.

You revealed to Me paths of life; You will fill Me with joy with Your face.” LXXPsa. 15:8-11; MT-Psa. 16:8-11

For Jehovah comforts Zion. He comforts all her desolations, and He makes her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of singing praise.

They shall be satisfied from the fatness of Your house; and You make them drink the torrent of Your pleasures.

And being persuaded of this, I know that I will remain and will continue with you all for your advancement and joy of faith,

He being prudent on a matter shall find good success; yea, he trusting in Jehovah, blessed is he!

Jehovah did great things to work with us; we are glad.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, the joy of my delight, and I will thank with the lyre, O God, my God.

Let Your mercies come to me that I may live; for Your Law is my delight.

I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah; and Your Law is my delight.

But the meek shall inherit the earth; yea, they shall delight themselves in abundant peace.

and my spirit exulted in God my Savior.

For Your loving-kindness is better than life; my lips give praise to You.

You have not multiplied the nation; You have not increased the joy. They rejoice before You as in the joy of harvest, as men shout when they divide the plunder.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding.

O satisfy us in the morning with Your mercy, and we will be glad and rejoice all our days.

For You have been a help to me, and I will rejoice under the shadow of Your wings.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Yes, they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah; for the glory of Jehovah is great,

The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

Blessed is the one You elect and cause to come near You; he shall dwell in Your courts; we shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Your holy temple.

O come, let us sing to Jehovah; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation.Let us go before His face with praise; let us shout to Him with songs.

But if indeed I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice; yea, I rejoice with you all.And you also rejoice in the same and rejoice with me.

Glory in His holy name; let the heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoice.

My soul longs and even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Great peace is to those who love Your Law, and there is no stumbling block to them.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why do you moan within me? Hope in God, for I will still thank Him, the salvations of my face, and my God.

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