LXX Concordance for εὐφροσύνης

“Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres,

“You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”

Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments ​— ​harps, lyres, and cymbals.

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple, but many others shouted joyfully.

He displayed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness for a total of 180 days.

They fought on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar and rested on the fourteenth, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.

because during those days the Jews gained relief from their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

You reveal the path of life to me;

in your presence is abundant joy;

at your right hand are eternal pleasures.

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

All that my eyes desired, I did not deny them. I did not refuse myself any pleasure, for I took pleasure in all my struggles. This was my reward for all my struggles.

The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning,

but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.

Go out, young women of Zion,

and gaze at King Solomon,

wearing the crown his mother placed on him

on the day of his wedding —

the day of his heart's rejoicing.

You will joyfully draw water

from the springs of salvation,

The whole earth is calm and at rest;

people shout with a ringing cry.

The humble will have joy

after joy in the LORD,

and the poor people will rejoice

in the Holy One of Israel.

and the ransomed of the LORD will return

and come to Zion with singing,

crowned with unending joy.

Joy and gladness will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Leave Babylon,

flee from the Chaldeans!

Declare with a shout of joy,

proclaim this,

let it go out to the end of the earth;

announce,

“The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob! ”

And the ransomed of the LORD will return

and come to Zion with singing,

crowned with unending joy.

Joy and gladness will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion;

to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,

festive oil instead of mourning,

and splendid clothes instead of despair.[fn]

And they will be called righteous trees,

planted by the LORD

to glorify him.

I rejoice greatly in the LORD,

I exult in my God;

for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation

and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness,

as a groom wears a turban

and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.

“I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them ​— ​the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

“a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride, and the voice of those saying,

Give thanks to the LORD of Armies,

for the LORD is good;

his faithful love endures forever

as they bring thanksgiving sacrifices to the temple of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as in former times, says the LORD.

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Certainly in my burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took[fn] my land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt so that its pastureland became[fn] plunder.