Lexicon :: Strong's H8057 - śimḥâ

“Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres,

“You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”

“Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,

Now the Philistine leaders gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said:

Our god has handed over

our enemy Samson to us.

As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

It was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed Obed-edom’s family and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed-edom’s house to the city of David with rejoicing.

All the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth split open from the sound.[fn]

In addition, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came and brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen ​— ​abundant provisions of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine and oil, herds, and flocks. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments ​— ​harps, lyres, and cymbals.

David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.

Then the people rejoiced because of their leaders’ willingness to give, for they had given to the LORD wholeheartedly. King David also rejoiced greatly.

I know, my God, that you test the heart and that you are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present[fn] here giving joyfully and[fn] willingly to you.

They ate and drank with great joy in the LORD’s presence that day.

Then, for a second time, they made David’s son Solomon king; they anointed him[fn] as the LORD’s ruler, and Zadok as the priest.

Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem turned back with Jehoshaphat their leader, returning joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD enabled them to rejoice over their enemies.

Then Jehoiada put the oversight of the LORD’s temple into the hands of the Levitical priests, whom David had appointed over the LORD’s temple, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and song ordained by[fn] David.

Then King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to sing praise to the LORD in the words of David and of the seer Asaph. So they sang praises with rejoicing and knelt low and worshiped.

The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy, and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day after day with loud instruments.

The whole congregation decided to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy,

There was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this was known since the days of Solomon son of David, the king of Israel.

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple, but many others shouted joyfully.

They observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful, having changed the Assyrian king’s attitude toward them, so that he supported them[fn] in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

Then all the people began to eat and drink, send portions, and have a great celebration, because they had understood the words that were explained to them.

The whole community that had returned from exile made shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not celebrated like this from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. And there was tremendous joy.

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sent for the Levites wherever they lived and brought them to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

On that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given them great joy. The women and children also celebrated, and Jerusalem’s rejoicing was heard far away.

and the Jews celebrated[fn] with gladness, joy, and honor.

They fought on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar and rested on the fourteenth, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.

because during those days the Jews gained relief from their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

the joy of the wicked has been brief

and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

You have put more joy in my heart

than they have when their grain and new wine abound.

You reveal the path of life to me;

in your presence is abundant joy;

at your right hand are eternal pleasures.

You give him blessings forever;

you cheer him with joy in your presence.

You turned my lament into dancing;

you removed my sackcloth

and clothed me with gladness,

Then I will come to the altar of God,

to God, my greatest joy.

I will praise you with the lyre,

God, my God.

They are led in with gladness and rejoicing;

they enter the king’s palace.

Let me hear joy and gladness;

let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

But the righteous are glad;

they rejoice before God and celebrate with joy.

Light dawns[fn][fn] for the righteous,

gladness for the upright in heart.

Serve the LORD with gladness;

come before him with joyful songs.

so that I may enjoy the prosperity

of your chosen ones,

rejoice in the joy of your nation,

and boast about your heritage.

for our captors there asked us for songs,

and our tormentors, for rejoicing:

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

The hope of the righteous is joy,

but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,

but those who promote peace have joy.

The heart knows its own bitterness,

and no outsider shares in its joy.