Personal Expressions of Joy

You turned my wailing into dancing.  You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy that my heart may sing to You and not be silent.  O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever (Psalm 30:11-12).

May my meditations be pleasing to Him as I rejoice in the Lord (Psalm 104:34).

I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High (Psalm 9:2).

I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy… (Psalm 31:7)

My spirit rejoices in God, my Savior (Luke 1:47).

I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord (Psalm 27:6).

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God… (Isaiah 61:10)

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You – I, whom You have redeemed (Psalm 71:23).

I will go to the altar of God; to God, my Exceeding Joy.  And on the harp I will praise You, O God my God (Psalm 43:4).

My heart leaps for joy and will give thanks to Him in song (Psalm 28:7).

My mouth offers praise with joyful lips (Psalm 63:5).

Your statues … are the joy of my heart (Psalm 119:111).

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart… (Psalm 19:8)

Your words become for me a joy and the delight of my heart.  For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of Hosts (Jeremiah 15:16).

For You make me glad by Your deeds, O Lord; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands (Psalm 92:4).

You have filled my heart with greater joy than when the grain and new wine abound (Psalm 4:7).

Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul (Psalm 86:4).

My heart rejoices in the Lord…  I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation (1 Samuel 2:1).

Make me to hear joy and gladness; let the bones which You have broken rejoice…  Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your [gracious and] generous Spirit (Psalm 51:8, 12).

Let Your servant rejoice (Psalm 109:28).

Yet I will exult in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation (Habakkuk 3:18).

My heart rejoices in Your salvation (Psalm 13:5).

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices…  You have made known to me the path of life.  You will fill me with joy in Your presence (Acts 2:26, 28).

That I may share in the joy of Your nation, and join Your inheritance in giving praise (Psalm 106:5).

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

Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you, but rather that your names are recorded in heaven (Luke 10:20).

Rejoice before the Lord your God… (Leviticus 23:40)

You shall rejoice before the Lord your God… (Deuteronomy 16:11)

You shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all to which you put your hands (Deuteronomy 12:18).

You shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household (Deuteronomy 14:26).

For the joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10).

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.  When a man found it, he hid it again and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field (Matthew 13:44).

There is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime (Ecclesiastes 3:12).

Let each one examine his own work, and then he will have reason for rejoicing… (Galatians 6:4)

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works (Ecclesiastes 9:7).

These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you and your joy may be made full (John 15:11).

Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be made full (John 16:24).

And these things we write so your joy may be complete (1 John 1:4).

These things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves (John 17:13).