Quotes about Joy

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.