Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat. (BBE NIV)
Proverbs 17:21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 23:16 And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things. (BBE)
Proverbs 23:24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NIV)
Proverbs 23:25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy. (BBE DBY YLT)
Proverbs 24:17 Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall: (BBE YLT)
Proverbs 27:9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend. (WEB NIV)
Proverbs 27:11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor. (WEB NIV)
Proverbs 29:3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. (WEB BBE NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 2:2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it? (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 2:10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 3:13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Ecclesiastes 3:22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him? (BBE RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God. (BBE RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease. (BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. (Root in WEB ASV BBE RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go your way-eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 11:8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose. (BBE NIV)
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge. (BBE NIV)
Song of Songs 1:4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers. (BBE YLT)
Song of Songs 3:11 Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart. (BBE YLT)
Isaiah 3:10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways. (BBE NIV)
Isaiah 9:3 You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. (KJV JPS WBS)
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 12:6 Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you. (BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 14:7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. (See NAS)
Isaiah 16:9 For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain; (See NIV)
Isaiah 16:10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 22:2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Isaiah 22:13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel? (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Isaiah 23:12 And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest. (BBE)
Isaiah 24:8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)
Isaiah 24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 24:14 Those yonder lift up their voice, they sing for joy; for the majesty of the LORD they shout from the sea: (JPS BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 25:9 And 'one' hath said in that day, 'Lo, this 'is' our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This 'is' Jehovah, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.' (YLT)
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 29:19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Isaiah 30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. (DBY YLT)
Isaiah 32:13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Isaiah 35:1 The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers. (BBE YLT)
Isaiah 35:2 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, the excellence of our God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 35:6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 35:10 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 41:16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel. (BBE)
Isaiah 42:11 Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy. (BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 44:23 Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel. (See NAS NIV)
Isaiah 48:20 Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 49:13 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 51:3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 51:11 The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 52:8 The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS NIV)
Isaiah 54:1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord. (BBE DBY NAS NIV)
Isaiah 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 56:7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 60:5 Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you. (BBE NIV)
Isaiah 60:15 "Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 61:3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)
Isaiah 61:7 Instead of your shame you shall have double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)
Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you. (BBE DBY YLT)
Isaiah 65:13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed: (BBE)
Isaiah 65:14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Isaiah 65:18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)
Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said,'Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;' but it is those who shall be disappointed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 66:10 "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 7:34 And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste. (BBE DBY YLT NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 15:17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath. (BBE)
Jeremiah 16:9 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride. (BBE DBY YLT NIV)
Jeremiah 25:10 And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights. (BBE DBY YLT NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 31:7 For thus said Jehovah: Sing, O ye to Jacob, 'with' joy, And cry aloud at the head of the nations, Sound ye, praise ye, and say, Save, O Jehovah, thy people, the remnant of Israel. (YLT NIV)
Jeremiah 31:12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. (See NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 33:9 This city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 33:11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; and of them who bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. (KJV WBS)
Jeremiah 48:33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 49:25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 51:48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh. (WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 4:21 Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen. (BBE YLT)
Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 7:7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains. (Root in WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 24:25 You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 25:6 For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel; (BBE)