Genesis 41:14

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

“All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet.

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.