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 in Your decrees. I will never forget Your word.

Your words were found, so I ate them. Your words were a delight to me and the joy of my heart. For I am called by Your Name, Adonai-Elohei-Tzva’ot.

All who see me mock me. They curl their lips, shaking their heads:

Rejoice in the Lord always—again I will say, rejoice!

You make known to me the path of life. Abundance of joys are in Your presence, eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

I will rejoice greatly in Adonai. My soul will be joyful in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me in a robe of righteousness— like a bridegroom wearing a priestly turban, like a bride adorning herself with her jewels.

Delight yourself in Adonai, and He will give you the requests of your heart.

Then I said: “Here I am, I have come— in the scroll of a book it is written about me.

But his delight is in the Torah of Adonai, and on His Torah he meditates day and night.

Halleluyah! Happy is the man who fears Adonai, who delights greatly in His mitzvot.

Then Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in Adonai, my horn is lifted high in Adonai. I smile wide over my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.

So he said to them, “Go! Eat choice food, drink sweet drinks, and send portions to those who have nothing ready. For today is kadosh to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of Adonai is your strength.”

One thing have I asked of Adonai, that will I seek: to dwell in the House of Adonai all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Adonai, and to meditate in His Temple.

They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of every good thing—hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves, and an abundance of fruit trees. They ate and were satisfied, and grew fat. They enjoyed Your great goodness.

The angel of Adonai encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them.

then You will delight yourself in Adonai, and I will let you ride over the heights of the earth, I will feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of Adonai has spoken.

Help me walk in the path of Your mitzvot—for I delight in it.

I will praise Adonai with my whole heart. I will tell about all Your wonders.

Surely then Shaddai will be your delight and you will lift up your face to God.

If Your Torah had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

When my troubling thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations comfort my soul.

He delights not in the horse’s strength, nor takes pleasure in a man’s legs.

Why do you spend money for what is not bread? Your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.

Thus says Adonai to this people: How they loved to wander, They did not restrain their feet. So Adonai does not accept them. Now will He remember their iniquity, and punish their sins.

then I was the craftsman beside Him, I was His daily delight, always rejoicing before Him,rejoicing in His whole world, and delighting in mankind.

Who is a God like You pardoning iniquity, overlooking transgression, for the remnant of His heritage? He will not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

I delight in Your mitzvot, which I love.

Your testimonies I have as a heritage forever, for they are my heart’s joy.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and shalom in trusting, so you may overflow with hope in the power of the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

The Torah of Adonai is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of Adonai is trustworthy, making the simple wise.

From Adonai a man’s steps are made firm, when He delights in his way.

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. And even though you don’t see Him now, you trust Him and are filled with a joy that is glorious beyond words,

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full.

You are my hiding place and my shield —in Your word I hope.

with a ten-string harp, with resounding music on the lyre.

Serve Adonai with gladness. Come before His presence with joyful singing.

For Adonai takes pleasure in His people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

Adonai your God is in your midst— a mighty Savior! He will delight over you with joy. He will quiet you with His love. He will dance for joy over you with singing.’

I rejoice in the way of Your testimonies above all wealth.

Be glad in Adonai and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all who are upright in heart.

This is the day that Adonai has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

So I will bless You as long as I live. In Your name I lift up my hands.My soul is satisfied as with fat and oil, so my mouth praises You with joyful lips.

Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and will not be afraid. For the Lord Adonai is my strength and my song. He also has become my salvation.”With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

Yet will I triumph in Adonai, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

Our heart rejoices in Him, because we trusted in His holy Name.

I rejoice in Your word, as one who finds great spoil.

And not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To keep writing the same things to you is not troublesome for me—but for you it is a safeguard.

I detest those who continue to watch worthless idols, but I trust in Adonai.

Rejoice in Adonai, you righteous ones, and praise His holy Name.

Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy are in His place.

His glory is great through Your salvation. Honor and majesty You bestow on him.

Yes, in the way of Your judgments, Adonai, we have waited for You. Your Name and Your remembrance is the desire of our soul.

For the music director, a contemplative song of the sons of Korah.

Rejoice always,pray constantly,in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Messiah Yeshua.

Then my soul will rejoice in Adonai and delight in His salvation.

O God, look at our shield, and look upon the face of Your anointed.

Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been written in the heavens.”

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne. Lovingkindness and truth go before You.Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout, They walk in the light of Your presence, Adonai.

And the shalom of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Messiah Yeshua.

For Your testimonies are my delight— they are also my counselors.

Let my meditation be sweet to Him. I—I will rejoice in Adonai.

How sweet is Your word to my taste— yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

My soul has observed Your testimonies and I love them exceedingly.

so I may behold the prosperity of Your chosen ones, exult in the joy of Your nation, and give praise with Your inheritance.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in distress, persisting in prayer,

But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Adonai is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped. Therefore my heart leaps for joy, and I will praise Him with my song.

Up to now, you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.

for He satisfies the thirsty soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

My lips will shout for joy —when I sing praises to You— and my soul, which You have redeemed.

These things we write so our joy may be full.

Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your mitzvot are my delight.

Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Adonai his God,

Happy are such a people! Blessed are the people whose God is Adonai!

Adonai reigns, let the earth rejoice, let the many islands be glad.

The ransomed of Adonai will return and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy upon their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Their minds are insensible, but Your Torah is my delight.

A joyful heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating. For behold, I am creating Jerusalem for rejoicing, and her people for joy.Then I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in My people. No longer will the voice of weeping or the voice of crying be heard in her.

Hear, Adonai, and be gracious to me. Adonai, be my help.”

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly!

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

For Adonai will comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of Adonai. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and a sound of melody.

How precious is Your love, O God! The children of men find refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for the sake of your progress and joy in the faith—

One prudent in a matter will find good Blessed is the one who trusts in Adonai.

Adonai has done great things for us —we are joyful!

Then I will come to the altar of God, to the God of my exceeding joy, and praise You upon the harp —O God, my God.

Let Your tender mercies reach me, Let me live, for Your Torah is my delight.

I long for Your deliverance, Adonai, and Your Torah is my delight.

But the meek will inherit the land, and delight in abundant shalom.

and my spirit greatly rejoices in God, my Savior.

So, I looked for You in the Sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.

For You will break the burdensome yoke and the rod on his shoulder— the war-club of his oppressor— as in the day of Midian.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.

Satisfy us in the morning with Your love, so we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You through the night watches.

for the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and shalom and joy in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

So they will sing of the ways of Adonai, for great is the glory of Adonai.

The Torah from Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Records of sins overwhelm me— You will atone for our transgressions.

O come, let us sing for joy to Adonai. Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.For forty years I loathed that generation. So I said: ‘It is a people whose heart goes astray, who do not know My ways.’Therefore I swore in My anger, ‘They shall never enter into My rest.’”Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving. Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and the service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.The same way, you also—rejoice and share your joy with me!

Glory in His holy Name! Let the heart of those who seek Adonai rejoice.

How lovely are Your tabernacles, Adonai-Tzva’ot!

Great peace have they who love Your Torah, and nothing causes them to stumble.

Why are You downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance.

Prayer