Isaiah 9:3

New Living Translation

You will enlarge the nation of Israel, and its people will rejoice. They will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest and like warriors dividing the plunder.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

Job 12:23

He builds up nations, and he destroys them. He expands nations, and he abandons them.

Psalm 107:38

How he blesses them! They raise large families there, and their herds of livestock increase.

Psalm 119:162

I rejoice in your word like one who discovers a great treasure.

Psalm 4:7

You have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine.

Isaiah 10:26

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will lash them with his whip, as he did when Gideon triumphed over the Midianites at the rock of Oreb, or when the Lord’s staff was raised to drown the Egyptian army in the sea.

Isaiah 12:1

In that day you will sing: “I will praise you, O Lord! You were angry with me, but not anymore. Now you comfort me.

Isaiah 14:5

For the Lord has crushed your wicked power and broken your evil rule.

Isaiah 25:9

In that day the people will proclaim, “This is our God! We trusted in him, and he saved us! This is the Lord, in whom we trusted. Let us rejoice in the salvation he brings!”

Isaiah 26:15

O Lord, you have made our nation great; yes, you have made us great. You have extended our borders, and we give you the glory!

Isaiah 35:10

Those who have been ransomed by the Lord will return. They will enter Jerusalem singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Sorrow and mourning will disappear, and they will be filled with joy and gladness.

Isaiah 35:2

Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers and singing and joy! The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon, as lovely as Mount Carmel or the plain of Sharon. There the Lord will display his glory, the splendor of our God.

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O childless woman, you who have never given birth! Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem, you who have never been in labor. For the desolate woman now has more children than the woman who lives with her husband,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 55:12

You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands!

Isaiah 61:10

I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord my God! For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness. I am like a bridegroom dressed for his wedding or a bride with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:7

Instead of shame and dishonor, you will enjoy a double share of honor. You will possess a double portion of prosperity in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.

Isaiah 65:14

My servants will sing for joy, but you will cry in sorrow and despair.

Isaiah 65:18

Be glad; rejoice forever in my creation! And look! I will create Jerusalem as a place of happiness. Her people will be a source of joy.

Isaiah 66:10

“Rejoice with Jerusalem! Be glad with her, all you who love her and all you who mourn for her.

Jeremiah 31:7

Now this is what the Lord says: “Sing with joy for Israel. Shout for the greatest of nations! Shout out with praise and joy: ‘Save your people, O Lord, the remnant of Israel!’

Hosea 4:7

The more priests there are, the more they sin against me. They have exchanged the glory of God for the shame of idols.

Leviticus 26:13

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high.

Zechariah 10:8

When I whistle to them, they will come running, for I have redeemed them. From the few who are left, they will grow as numerous as they were before.

Zechariah 2:11

Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day, and they, too, will be my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies sent me to you.

Zechariah 8:23

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: In those days ten men from different nations and languages of the world will clutch at the sleeve of one Jew. And they will say, ‘Please let us walk with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

Luke 11:22

until someone even stronger attacks and overpowers him, strips him of his weapons, and carries off his belongings.

Acts 8:8

So there was great joy in that city.

Philippians 4:4

Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice!

1 Peter 1:8

You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.

Judges 5:3

“Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you mighty rulers! For I will sing to the Lord. I will make music to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Judges 7:22

When the 300 Israelites blew their rams’ horns, the Lord caused the warriors in the camp to fight against each other with their swords. Those who were not killed fled to places as far away as Beth-shittah near Zererah and to the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

Judges 8:12

Zebah and Zalmunna, the two Midianite kings, fled, but Gideon chased them down and captured all their warriors.

1 Samuel 30:16

So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah.