Lexicon :: Strong's H8057 - śimḥâ

Even in laughter a heart may be sad,

and joy may end in grief.

Foolishness brings joy to one without sense,

but a person with understanding walks a straight path.

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous

but a terror to evildoers.

I said to myself, “Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.

for he does not often consider the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning,

but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.

So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself, for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.

Go out, young women of Zion,

and gaze at King Solomon,

wearing the crown his mother placed on him

on the day of his wedding —

the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

You have enlarged the nation

and increased its joy.[fn]

The people have rejoiced before you

as they rejoice at harvest time

and as they rejoice when dividing spoils.

Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard;

no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.

No one tramples grapes[fn] in the winepresses.

I have put an end to the shouting.

But look: joy and gladness,

butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats,

eating of meat, and drinking of wine —

“Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ”

In the streets they cry[fn] for wine.

All joy grows dark;

earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.

The humble will have joy

after joy in the LORD,

and the poor people will rejoice

in the Holy One of Israel.

Your singing will be like that

on the night of a holy festival,

and your heart will rejoice

like one who walks to the music of a flute,

going up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the Rock of Israel.

and the ransomed of the LORD will return

and come to Zion with singing,

crowned with unending joy.

Joy and gladness will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

For the LORD will comfort Zion;

he will comfort all her waste places,

and he will make her wilderness like Eden,

and her desert like the garden of the LORD.

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and melodious song.

You will indeed go out with joy

and be peacefully guided;

the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,

and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

In place of your shame, you will have a double portion;

in place of disgrace, they will rejoice over their share.

So they will possess double in their land,

and eternal joy will be theirs.

You who tremble at his word,

hear the word of the LORD:

“Your brothers who hate and exclude you

for my name’s sake have said,

‘Let the LORD be glorified

so that we can see your joy! ’

But they will be put to shame.”

“I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, for the land will become a desolate waste.

Your words were found, and I ate them.

Your words became a delight to me

and the joy of my heart,

for I bear your name,

LORD God of Armies.

“For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.

“I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them ​— ​the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

For this is what the LORD says:

Sing with joy for Jacob;

shout for the foremost of the nations!

Proclaim, praise, and say,

“LORD, save your people,

the remnant of Israel! ”

“a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride, and the voice of those saying,

Give thanks to the LORD of Armies,

for the LORD is good;

his faithful love endures forever

as they bring thanksgiving sacrifices to the temple of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as in former times, says the LORD.

Gladness and celebration are taken from the fertile field

and from the land of Moab.

I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses;

no one will tread with shouts of joy.

The shouting is not a shout of joy.

“Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, I will deal the same way with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Certainly in my burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took[fn] my land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt so that its pastureland became[fn] plunder.

Hasn’t the food been cut off

before our eyes,

joy and gladness

from the house of our God?

Then the LORD God appointed a plant, and it grew over Jonah to provide shade for his head to rescue him from his trouble.[fn] Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.

“The LORD your God is among you,

a warrior who saves.

He will rejoice over you with gladness.

He will be quiet[fn] in his love.

He will delight in you with singing.”

The LORD of Armies says this: “The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.”