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. GIMEL

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Hosts.

“He trusts in the LORD. 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 show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your Torah is within my heart.”

but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his Torah he meditates day and night.

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

Unless your Torah had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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

He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

The LORD says to this people: “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”

then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

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

The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

A man’s steps are established by the LORD. He delights in his way.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

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

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

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation [yeshu`ah].

The LORD, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation [yeshu`ah].”Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation [yeshu`ah].

yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place.

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

Yes, in the way of your judgments, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Always rejoice.Pray without ceasing.In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Messiah Yeshua toward you.

My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

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

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALETH

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.

The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

Then the LORD’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your Torah.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

For the LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in the LORD is blessed.

The LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your Torah is my delight.

I have longed for your salvation [yeshuat], LORD. Your Torah is my delight.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

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

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Yes, they will sing of the ways of the LORD, for the LORD’s glory is great!

The Torah you have spoken is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YODH

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

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

Those who love your Torah have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

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