Proverbs 17:22

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

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

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.

Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.

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

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.

The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

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

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.