Lexicon :: Strong's H1523 - gîl

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;

And let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.”

Worship the LORD and serve Him with reverence [with awe-inspired fear and submissive wonder];

Rejoice [yet do so] with trembling.

That I may tell aloud all Your praises,

That in the gates of the daughter of Zion (Jerusalem)

I may rejoice in Your salvation and Your help.

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”

And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!

When the LORD restores His captive people,

Then Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my innermost self] rejoices;

My body too will dwell [confidently] in safety,

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

O LORD the king will delight in Your strength,

And in Your salvation how greatly will he rejoice!

I will rejoice and be glad in Your steadfast love,

Because You have seen my affliction;

You have taken note of my life’s distresses,

Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous [who actively seek right standing with Him];

Shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

Then my soul shall rejoice in the LORD;

It shall rejoice in His salvation.

Let Mount Zion be glad,

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice

Because of Your [righteous] judgments.

Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied;

Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!

When God restores [the fortunes of] His people,

Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

In Your name they rejoice all the day,

And in Your righteousness they are exalted.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;

Let the sea roar, and all the things it contains;

The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice;

Let the many islands and coastlands be glad.

Zion heard this and was glad,

And the daughters (cities) of Judah rejoiced [in relief]

Because of Your judgments, O LORD.

This [day in which God has saved me] is the day which the LORD has made;

Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;

Let Zion’s children rejoice in their King.

Who find joy in doing evil

And delight in the perversity of evil,

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,

And he who sires a wise child will have joy in him.

Do not rejoice and gloat when your enemy falls,

And do not let your heart be glad [in self-righteousness] when he stumbles,

“Draw me away with you and let us run together!

Let the king bring me into his chambers.”

[fn](The Chorus)

“We will rejoice and be glad in you;

We will remember and extol your love more [sweet and fragrant] than wine.

Rightly do they love you.”

You [O God] will increase the nation,

You will multiply their joy;

They will rejoice before You

Like the joy and jubilation of the harvest,

As men rejoice when they divide the spoil [of victory].

It will be said in that day,

“Indeed, this is our God for whom we have waited that He would save us.

This is the LORD for whom we have waited;

Let us shout for joy and rejoice in His salvation.”

The afflicted also will increase their joy in the LORD,

And the needy of mankind will rejoice and celebrate in the Holy One of Israel.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;

The Arabah (desert) will shout in exultation and blossom

Like the [fn]autumn crocus.

“You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,

And a high wind will scatter them;

But you will rejoice in the LORD,

You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Shout for joy, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth,

And break forth into singing, O mountains!

For the LORD has comforted His people

And will have compassion on His afflicted.

I will rejoice greatly in the LORD,

My soul will exult in my God;

For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,

He has covered me with a robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom puts on a [fn]turban,

And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“But be glad and rejoice forever over what I create;

Behold, I am creating Jerusalem to be a source of rejoicing

And her people a joy.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her;

Rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her,

The people of Samaria will fear and tremble

For the [idolatrous] calf of [fn]Beth-aven (House of Wickedness).

Indeed, its people will mourn over it

And its idolatrous priests will cry out and wail over it,

Over its glory, because the glory [of their calf god] has departed from it.

Do not fear, O land; be glad and rejoice,

For the LORD has done great things!

So rejoice, O children of Zion,

And delight in the LORD, your God;

For He has given you the early [autumn] rain in vindication

And He has poured down the rain for you,

The early [autumn] rain and the late [spring] rain, as before.

The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,

And drag them away with a net,

And gather them together in their fishing net;

So they rejoice and are glad.

Yet I will [choose to] rejoice in the LORD;

I will [choose to] shout in exultation in the [victorious] God of my salvation!

“The LORD your God is in your midst,

A Warrior who saves.

He will rejoice over you with joy;

He will be quiet in His love [making no mention of your past sins],

He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!

Shout aloud, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

Behold, your King (Messianic King) is coming to you;

He is righteous and endowed with salvation,

[fn]Humble and unassuming [in submission to the will of the Father] and riding on a [fn]donkey,

Upon a colt, the foal of a donkey.

“Then [fn]Ephraim will be like a mighty warrior,

And their heart will rejoice as if from wine;

Yes, their children will see it and rejoice;

Their heart will rejoice and shout triumphantly in the LORD.