Ezra 3:11-13

3:11 With antiphonal response they sang, ¹  praising and glorifying the Lord:

“For he is good;

his loyal love toward Israel is forever.”

All the people gave a loud ²  shout as they praised the Lord when the temple of the Lord was established. 3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders ³  – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established ⁴  – were weeping loudly, ⁵  and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout. 3:13 People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly ⁶  that the sound was heard a long way off.

Nehemiah 12:43

12:43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard from far away.

Psalms 32:11

32:11 Rejoice in the Lord and be happy, you who are godly!

Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright! ⁷ 

Psalms 98:4

98:4 Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth!

Break out in a joyful shout and sing!

Psalms 100:1

Psalm 100 ⁸ 

A thanksgiving psalm.

100:1 Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth!

Isaiah 65:13-14

65:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says:

“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!

Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!

Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ⁹ 

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ¹⁰ 

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ¹¹ 

[3:11]  ¹ tn Heb “they answered.”

[3:11]  ² tn Heb “great.”

[3:12]  ³ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

[3:12]  ⁴ sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

[3:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “with a great voice.”

[3:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “a great shout.”

[32:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “all [you] pure of heart.” The “heart” is here viewed as the seat of one’s moral character and motives. The “pure of heart” are God’s faithful followers who trust in and love the Lord and, as a result, experience his deliverance (see Pss 7:10; 11:2; 36:10; 64:10; 94:15; 97:11).

[100:1]  ⁸ sn Psalm 100. The psalmist celebrates the fact that Israel has a special relationship to God and summons worshipers to praise the Lord for his faithfulness.

[65:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”