Make a joyful noise to the Lord

Synonyms for Joy: happiness, delight, bliss, triumph, ecstasy, felicity, elation, enjoyment, euphoria, glee, cheerfulness, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, joyfulness, jubilation, rapture, ebullience, and pleasure

Psalms 97:11 (ESV)
Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

Psalms 98:4 (ESV)
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

Psalms 119:111 (ESV)
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalms 126:1-2 (ESV)
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. 2. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

Psalms 126:6 (ESV)
He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

Proverbs 12:20 (ESV)
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

Proverbs 14:10 (ESV)
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

Proverbs 15:21 (ESV)
Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.

Proverbs 17:21 (ESV)
He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:22 (ESV)
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 21:15 (ESV)
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 (ESV)
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 (ESV)
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.

Isaiah 12:3 (ESV)
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 26:19 (ESV)
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

Isaiah 29:19 (ESV)
The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 65:18 (ESV)
But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness.

Habakkuk 3:18 (ESV)
yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Matthew 13:19-20 (ESV)
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. 20. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

Matthew 13:44 (ESV)
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

John 16:21-22 (ESV)
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Romans 14:17 (ESV)
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23. gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Philippians 2:1-2 (ESV)
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2. complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 (ESV)
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 3:9 (ESV)
For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,

Hebrews 10:34 (ESV)
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

Hebrews 12:2 (ESV)
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 13:17 (ESV)
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

James 1:2 (ESV)
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

1 Peter 1:8 (ESV)
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

Jude 1:24 (ESV)
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,

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