Psalms 63:4-5

63:4 For this reason ¹  I will praise you while I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands. ² 

63:5 As if with choice meat ³  you satisfy my soul. ⁴ 

My mouth joyfully praises you, ⁵ 

Psalms 71:23

71:23 My lips will shout for joy! Yes, ⁶  I will sing your praises!

I will praise you when you rescue me! ⁷ 

Psalms 107:21-22

107:21 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,

and for the amazing things he has done for people! ⁸ 

107:22 Let them present thank offerings,

and loudly proclaim what he has done! ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 12:12

12:12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages ¹⁰  (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 16:11

16:11 You shall rejoice before him ¹²  – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, ¹³  the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 16:14

16:14 You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 28:47

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ¹⁵  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ¹⁶  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹⁷  I am giving ¹⁸  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹⁹  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ²⁰ 

Acts 2:46-47

2:46 Every day ²¹  they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, ²²  breaking bread from ²³  house to house, sharing their food with glad ²⁴  and humble hearts, ²⁵  2:47 praising God and having the good will ²⁶  of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day ²⁷  those who were being saved.

Philippians 4:4

4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

[63:4]  ¹ tn Or perhaps “then.”

[63:4]  ² sn I will lift up my hands. Lifting up one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer (see Ps 28:2; Lam 2:19) or respect (Ps 119:48).

[63:5]  ³ tn Heb “like fat and fatness.”

[63:5]  ⁴ tn Or “me.”

[63:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “and [with] lips of joy my mouth praises.”

[71:23]  ⁶ tn Or “when.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) has an emphasizing (asseverative) function here.

[71:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and my life [or “soul”] which you will have redeemed.” The perfect verbal form functions here as a future perfect. The psalmist anticipates praising God, for God will have rescued him by that time.

[107:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “and [for] his amazing deeds for the sons of man.” See v. 8.

[107:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “and let them proclaim his works with a ringing cry.”

[12:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “within your gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “who belongs to your community.”

[12:12]  ¹¹ sn They have no allotment or inheritance with you. See note on the word “inheritance” in Deut 10:9.

[16:11]  ¹² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “gates.”

[16:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in your gates.”

[28:1]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[8:1]  ¹⁷ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[2:46]  ²¹ tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.

[2:46]  ²² tn Grk “in the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

[2:46]  ²³ tn Here κατά (kata) is used as a distributive (BDAG 512 s.v. B.1.d).

[2:46]  ²⁴ sn The term glad (Grk “gladness”) often refers to joy brought about by God’s saving acts (Luke 1:14, 44; also the related verb in 1:47; 10:21).

[2:46]  ²⁵ tn Grk “with gladness and humbleness of hearts.” It is best to understand καρδίας (kardias) as an attributed genitive, with the two nouns it modifies actually listing attributes of the genitive noun which is related to them.

[2:47]  ²⁶ tn Or “the favor.”

[2:47]  ²⁷ tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.