'Joyful' in the Bible

Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

On the eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the king. Then they went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David His servant and to Israel His people.

Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

“Behold, let that night be barren;Let no joyful shout enter it.

For You make him most blessed forever;You make him joyful with gladness in Your presence.

My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness,And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance.

Serve the Lord with gladness;Come before Him with joyful singing.

And He brought forth His people with joy,His chosen ones with a joyful shout.

Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,And tell of His works with joyful singing.

He makes the barren woman abide in the houseAs a joyful mother of children.Praise the Lord!

The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous;The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

Then our mouth was filled with laughterAnd our tongue with joyful shouting;Then they said among the nations,“The Lord has done great things for them.”

Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face,But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.

A joyful heart is good medicine,But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

And the ransomed of the Lord will returnAnd come with joyful shouting to Zion,With everlasting joy upon their heads.They will find gladness and joy,And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this,Send it out to the end of the earth;Say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”

Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!For the Lord has comforted His peopleAnd will have compassion on His afflicted.

So the ransomed of the Lord will returnAnd come with joyful shouting to Zion,And everlasting joy will be on their heads.They will obtain gladness and joy,And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

“Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child;Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed;For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerousThan the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.

Even those I will bring to My holy mountainAnd make them joyful in My house of prayer.Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”

“Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her;Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her,

Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.