147 Bible verses to learn to live with Joy

What though no flow’rs the fig‐tree clothe, though vines their fruit deny, The labour of the olive fail, and fields no meat supply? 2 Though from the fold, with sad surprise, my flock cut off I see; Though famine pine in empty stalls, where herds were wont to be?Yet in the Lord will I be glad, and glory in his love; In him I’ll joy, who will the God of my salvation prove.

Ye heav’ns, send forth your song of praise! earth, raise your voice below! Let hills and mountains join the hymn, and joy through nature flow. 2 Behold how gracious is our God! hear the consoling strains, In which he cheers our drooping hearts, and mitigates our pains. 3 Cease ye, when days of darkness come, in sad dismay to mourn, As if the Lord could leave his saints forsaken or forlorn. 4 Can the fond mother e’er forget the infant whom she bore? And can its plaintive cries be heard, nor move compassion more? 5 She may forget: nature may fail a parent’s heart to move; But Sion on my heart shall dwell in everlasting love. 6 Full in my sight, upon my hands I have engrav’d her name: My hands shall build her ruin’d walls, and raise her broken frame.

Yet in the Lord will I be glad, and glory in his love; In him I’ll joy, who will the God of my salvation prove.

Let Christian faith and hope dispel the fears of guilt and woe; The Lord Almighty is our friend, and who can prove a foe? 2 He who his Son, most dear and lov’d, gave up for us to die, Shall he not all things freely give that goodness can supply? 3 Behold the best, the greatest gift, of everlasting love! Behold the pledge of peace below, and perfect bliss above! 4 Where is the judge who can condemn, since God hath justify’d? Who shall charge those with guilt or crime for whom the Saviour dy’d? 5 The Saviour dy’d, but rose again triumphant from the grave; And pleads our cause at God’s right hand, omnipotent to save. 6 Who then can e’er divide us more from Jesus and his love, Or break the sacred chain that binds the earth to heav’n above? 7 Let troubles rise, and terrors frown, and days of darkness fall; Through him all dangers we’ll defy, and more than conquer all. 8 Nor death nor life, nor earth nor hell, nor time’s destroying sway, Can e’er efface us from his heart, or make his love decay. 9 Each future period that will bless, as it has bless’d the past; He lov’d us from the first of time, he loves us to the last.