Isaiah 49:13

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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.”

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

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

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.

Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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.

For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.

They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”

and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

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.

“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal.

Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns!”

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.

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

Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!

Increase my honor and comfort me again.

You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul!

From the rising of the sun to its going down, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.

Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

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.

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”