OT.filter - bes joy:

bes@Leviticus:26:34 @ Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation.

bes@Leviticus:26:35 @ And ye shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall keep its sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep sabbaths which it kept not among your sabbaths, when ye dwelt in it.

bes@Leviticus:26:43 @ And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because they neglected my judgements, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.

bes@1Kings:1:40 @ And all the people went up after him, and they danced in choirs, and rejoiced with great joy, and the earth (note:)Gr. burst(:note) quaked with their voice.

bes@1Chronicles:12:40 @ And their neighbours, as far as Issachar and Zabulon and Nephthali, brought to them upon camels, and asses, and mules, and upon calves, victuals, meal, cakes of figs, raisins, wine, and oil, calves and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

bes@1Chronicles:15:16 @ And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set (note:)Gr. their(:note) your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.

bes@1Chronicles:29:17 @ And I know, Lord, that thou art he that searches the hearts, and thou lovest righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart; and now I have seen with joy thy people here (note:)Gr. found; See Hebrews.; also Ps strkjv@46:1(:note) present, willingly offering to thee.

bes@1Chronicles:29:22 @ And they ate and drank joyfully that day before the Lord: and they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and anointed him king before the Lord, and Sadoc to the priesthood.

bes@2Chronicles:20:27 @ And (note:)Gr. every man(:note) all the men of Juda returned to Jerusalem, and Josaphat led them with great joy; for the Lord gave them joy Gr. from over their enemies.

bes@2Chronicles:30:21 @ And the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy; and they continued to sing hymns to the Lord daily, and the priests and the Levites played on instruments to the Lord.

bes@2Chronicles:30:26 @ And there was great joy in Jerusalem: from the days of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not such a feast in Jerusalem.

bes@2Chronicles:36:21 @ That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, until the land should enjoy its sabbaths in resting and sabbath keeping all the days of its desolation, till the accomplishment of seventy years.

bes@Ezra:3:12 @ But many of the priests and the Levites, and the elder men, heads of families, who had seen the former house (note:)These words probably belong to the latter clause(:note) on its foundation, and who saw this house with their eyes, wept with a loud voice: but the multitude shouted with joy to raise a song.

bes@Nehemiah:8:17 @ And all the congregation who had returned from the captivity, made booths, and dwelt in booths: for the children of Israel had not done so from the days of Jesus the son of Naue until that day: and there was great joy.

bes@Nehemiah:12:43 @ And in that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them very joyful: and their wives and their children rejoiced: and the joy in Jerusalem was heard from afar off.

bes@Nehemiah:12:44 @ And in that day they appointed men over the treasuries, for the treasures, the first-fruits, and the tithes, and for the chiefs of the cities who were assembled among them, (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) to furnish portions for the priests and Levites: for there was joy in Juda over the priests and over the Levites that waited.

bes@Esther:8:17 @ in every city and province wherever the ordinance was published: wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth: and many of the Gentiles were circumcised, and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.

bes@Esther:9:17 @ And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.

bes@Esther:9:18 @ And the Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they kept also the fifteenth with joy and gladness.

bes@Esther:9:19 @ On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a (note:)Gr. good day(:note) holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbour.

bes@Esther:9:21 @ to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;

bes@Esther:9:22 @ for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and as to the month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of (note:)Gr. weddings(:note) feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends, and to the poor.

bes@Job:3:7 @ But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.

bes@Job:3:22 @ and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

bes@Job:20:5 @ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

bes@Job:40:15 @ And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in (note:)Hebrews. field, q. d., level, or, low place(:note) the deep.

bes@Psalms:16:11 @ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand there are delights for ever.

bes@Psalms:21:6 @ For thou wilt give him a blessing for ever and ever: thou wilt gladden him with joy with thy countenance.

bes@Psalms:27:6 @ And now, behold, he has lifted up mine head over mine enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of (note:)Gr. shouting(:note) joy; I will sing Or, and play on a psaltery even sing psalms to the Lord.

bes@Psalms:30:5 @ For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favour: weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning.

bes@Psalms:30:11 @ Thou hast turned my mourning into joy for me: thou hast rent off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

bes@Psalms:32:7 @ Thou art my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

bes@Psalms:48:2 @ The city of the great King is well planted on the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, on the sides of the north.

bes@Psalms:51:8 @ Thou shalt cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice.

bes@Psalms:51:12 @ Restore to me the joy of thy salvation: establish me with thy (note:)Gr. governing(:note) directing Spirit.

bes@Psalms:51:14 @ Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: and my tongue shall joyfully declare thy righteousness.

bes@Psalms:63:5 @ Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise thy name.

bes@Psalms:65:12 @ The mountains of the wilderness shall be enriched; and the hills shall gird themselves with joy.

bes@Psalms:68:3 @ But let the righteous rejoice; let them exult before God: let them be delighted with joy.

bes@Psalms:89:15 @ Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.

bes@Psalms:95:1 @ - Come, let us exult (note:)Gr. unto(:note) in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour.

bes@Psalms:95:2 @ Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

bes@Psalms:98:6 @ With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king.

bes@Psalms:100:1 @ - Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

bes@Psalms:105:43 @ And he brought out his people with exultation, and his chosen with joy;

bes@Psalms:119:111 @ I have inherited thy testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart.

bes@Psalms:126:2 @ Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles,

bes@Psalms:126:3 @ The Lord has done great things among them. The Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful.

bes@Psalms:126:5 @ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

bes@Psalms:137:6 @ May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember thee; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.

bes@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.

bes@Proverbs:9:17 @ Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.

bes@Proverbs:10:28 @ Joy rests long with the righteous: but the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

bes@Proverbs:12:11 @ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. (note:)(12:11AA)(:note) He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonour in his own strong holds.

bes@Proverbs:14:13 @ Grief mingles not with mirth; and joy in the end comes to grief.

bes@Proverbs:21:15 @ It is the joy of the righteous to do judgement: but a holy man is abominable with evil-doers.

bes@Proverbs:29:6 @ A great snare is spread for a sinner: but the righteous shall be in joy and gladness.

bes@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ For God has given to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but he has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ In the day of prosperity live joyfully, and consider in the day of adversity: consider, I say, God also has caused the one to agree with the other (note:)Lit. concerning speech; Hebrews. «in order that’(:note) for this reason, that man should find nothing after him.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go, eat thy bread with mirth, and drink thy wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted thy works.

bes@Isaiah:9:3 @ The (note:)Gr. greatest part(:note) multitude of the people which thou hast brought down in thy joy, they shall even rejoice before thee as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

bes@Isaiah:12:3 @ Draw ye therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation.

bes@Isaiah:14:7 @ All the earth cries aloud with joy:

bes@Isaiah:22:13 @ but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

bes@Isaiah:29:19 @ and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.

bes@Isaiah:32:13 @ As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.

bes@Isaiah:32:14 @ As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves for ever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds’ pastures;

bes@Isaiah:35:7 @ And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

bes@Isaiah:44:23 @ Rejoice, ye heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet, ye foundations of the earth: ye mountains, shout with joy, ye hills, and all the trees therein: for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.

bes@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth of Babylon, thou that fleest from the Chaldeans: utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath delivered his servant Jacob.

bes@Isaiah:48:22 @ There is no (note:)See Isa strkjv@57:21(:note) joy, saith the Lord, to the ungodly.

bes@Isaiah:49:13 @ Rejoice, ye heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break forth with joy; for the Lard has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his people.

bes@Isaiah:51:11 @ for by the help of the Lord they shall return, and come to Sion with joy and everlasting exultation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.

bes@Isaiah:52:9 @ Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth in joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:55:12 @ For ye shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.

bes@Isaiah:57:21 @ There is no (note:)See Isa strkjv@48:22(:note) joy to the ungodly, said God.

bes@Isaiah:60:15 @ Because thou has become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make thee a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.

bes@Isaiah:61:3 @ that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the (note:)Or, anointing(:note) oil of joy to the mourners, Alex. reads katastolhn as one word the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

bes@Isaiah:61:7 @ Thus shall they inherit the land a second time, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.

bes@Isaiah:61:10 @ and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

bes@Isaiah:65:14 @ behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.

bes@Isaiah:65:18 @ But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.

bes@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labours.

bes@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the words of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; speak ye, (note:)Alex. hmwn, but Hebrews. and Vat. «your’(:note) our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear Or, your their joy; but they shall be ashamed.

bes@Jeremiah:15:16 @ consume them; and thy word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

bes@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will make to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

bes@Jeremiah:25:10 @ And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.

bes@Jeremiah:31:33 @ Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and though there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.

bes@Jeremiah:38:13 @ Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

bes@Jeremiah:40:9 @ And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do: and they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.

bes@Jeremiah:40:11 @ the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endures for ever: and they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord; for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.

bes@Lamentations:2:15 @ SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at thee; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

bes@Lamentations:5:15 @ The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

bes@Ezekiel:35:14 @ Thus saith the Lord; (note:)Lit. in the joy of, etc.(:note) When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make thee desert.

bes@Ezekiel:36:5 @ therefore, thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, (note:)Lit. having dishonoured(:note) disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder:

bes@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, from (note:)Gr. their(:note) your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and are removed from your mouth.

bes@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have (note:)Gr. disfigured, or, disgraced(:note) have abolished joy.

bes@Joel:1:16 @ Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

bes@Amos:7:9 @ And the (note:)Gr. altars of laughter(:note) joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be Gr. made desolate set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

bes@Jonah:4:6 @ And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.

bes@Habakkuk:3:18 @ yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.

bes@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The Lord thy God is in thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall (note:)Lit. renew(:note) refresh thee with his love; and he shall rejoice over thee with delight as in a day of feasting.

bes@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Juda for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and ye shall rejoice; and love ye the truth and peace.

bes@Jdt:12:14 @ Then said Judith unto him, Who am I now, that I should gainsay my lord? surely whatsoever pleaseth him I will do speedily, and it shall be my joy unto the day of my death.

bes@Jdt:14:9 @ And when she had left off speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.

bes@Jdt:16:11 @ Then my afflicted shouted for joy, and my weak ones cried aloud; but they were astonished: these lifted up their voices, but they were overthrown.

bes@Wis:2:6 @ Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

bes@Wis:2:9 @ Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.

bes@Wis:8:16 @ After I am come into mine house, I will repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness; and to live with her hath no sorrow, but mirth and joy.

bes@Tob:7:18 @ Be of good comfort, my daughter; the Lord of heaven and earth give thee joy for this thy sorrow: be of good comfort, my daughter.

bes@Tob:8:16 @ Thou art to be praised, for thou hast made me joyful; and that is not come to me which I suspected; but thou hast dealt with us according to thy great mercy.

bes@Tob:8:17 @ Thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two that were the only begotten children of their fathers: grant them mercy, O Lord, and finish their life in health with joy and mercy.

bes@Tob:11:17 @ But Tobias gave thanks before them, because God had mercy on him. And when he came near to Sara his daughter in law, he blessed her, saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought thee unto us, and blessed be thy father and thy mother. And there was joy among all his brethren which were at Nineve.

bes@Tob:11:19 @ And Tobias’ wedding was kept seven days with great joy.

bes@Tob:13:10 @ Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: and praise the everlasting King, that his tabernacle may be builded in thee again with joy, and let him make joyful there in thee those that are captives, and love in thee for ever those that are miserable.

bes@Tob:13:11 @ Many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven; all generations shall praise thee with great joy.

bes@Sir:1:12 @ The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart, and giveth joy, and gladness, and a long life.

bes@Sir:1:23 @ A patient man will tear for a time, and afterward joy shall spring up unto him.

bes@Sir:2:9 @ Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy.

bes@Sir:3:5 @ Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children; and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.

bes@Sir:4:12 @ He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy.

bes@Sir:6:28 @ For at the last thou shalt find her rest, and that shall be turned to thy joy.

bes@Sir:6:31 @ Thou shalt put her on as a robe of honour, and shalt put her about thee as a crown of joy.

bes@Sir:15:6 @ He shall find joy and a crown of gladness, and she shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name.

bes@Sir:25:7 @ There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy:

bes@Sir:30:1 @ He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that he may have joy of him in the end.

bes@Sir:30:2 @ He that chastiseth his son shall have joy in him, and shall rejoice of him among his acquaintance.

bes@Sir:30:16 @ There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. I awaked up last of all, as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers: by the blessing of the Lord I profited, and filled my winepress like a gatherer of grapes.

bes@Sir:30:22 @ The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

bes@Sir:50:23 @ He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever:

bes@Bar:2:23 @ I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants.

bes@Bar:4:11 @ With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.

bes@Bar:4:22 @ For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.

bes@Bar:4:23 @ For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.

bes@Bar:4:29 @ For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.

bes@Bar:4:36 @ O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.

bes@Bar:5:9 @ For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.

bes@1Macc:3:45 @ Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the strong hold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.

bes@1Macc:5:23 @ And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbattis, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away with him, and brought them into Judea with great joy.

bes@1Macc:5:54 @ So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.

bes@1Macc:5:64 @ Insomuch as the people assembled unto them with joyful acclamations.

bes@1Macc:14:11 @ He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:

bes@2Macc:3:30 @ But they praised the Lord, that had miraculously honoured his own place: for the temple; which a little afore was full of fear and trouble, when the Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness.

bes@2Macc:9:19 @ Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:

bes@2Macc:15:28 @ Now when the battle was done, returning again with joy, they knew that Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

bes@3Macc:4:1 @ Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to shew itself openly.

bes@3Macc:4:6 @ Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn.

bes@3Macc:4:16 @ The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.

bes@3Macc:5:17 @ This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet.

bes@3Macc:5:44 @ Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.

bes@3Macc:6:32 @ Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.

bes@3Macc:6:34 @ Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.

bes@3Macc:7:1 @ King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.

bes@3Macc:7:13 @ Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed.

bes@3Macc:7:15 @ slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy.

bes@3Macc:7:16 @ They themselves having held fast their God unto death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel.

bes@3Macc:7:19 @ They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness.

bes@3Macc:7:20 @ These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king's command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.

bes@4Macc:1:22 @ Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.

bes@4Macc:5:8 @ It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature.

bes@4Macc:8:5 @ but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.

bes@4Macc:16:18 @ Remember that through God ye obtained existence, and have enjoyed it.

bes@1Esd:1:58 @ Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she rest, until the full term of seventy years.

bes@1Esd:5:64 @ But many with trumpets and joy shouted with loud voice,