<p class="poetry">The godly bask in the light;p> <p class="poetry">the morally upright experience joy.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The hope<n id="1" /> of the righteous is joy,p> <p class="poetry">but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You make me happier<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">than those who have abundant grain and wine.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He makes the barren woman of the family<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a happy mother of children.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but those who promote peace<n id="2" /> have joy.p>

<p class="poetry">Even in laughter the heart may ache,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the end<n id="2" /> of joy may be<n id="3" /> grief.p>

<p class="poetry">Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but one who has understanding<n id="2" /> follows an upright course.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">A person has joy<n id="1" /> in giving an appropriate answer,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and a word at the right time<n id="3" /> &#8211; how good it is!p>

<p class="poetry">Doing<n id="1" /> justice brings<n id="2" /> joy to the righteousp> <p class="poetry">and terror<n id="3" /> to those who do evil.p>

<p class="poetry">The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,p> <p class="poetry">but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The entire assembly then decided to celebrate for seven more days; so they joyfully celebrated for seven more days.

<p class="poetry">Then you turned my lament into dancing;p> <p class="poetry">you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">for there our captors ask us to compose songs;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Sing for us a song about Zion!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who loves<n id="1" /> pleasure<n id="2" /> will be<n id="3" /> a poor person;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">whoever loves wine and anointing oil<n id="5" /> will not be rich.p>

<p class="poetry">They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all joy turns to sorrow;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">celebrations disappear from the earth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The downtrodden will again rejoice in the <sc>Lordsc>;p> <p class="poetry">the poor among humankind will take delight<n id="1" /> in the Holy One of Israel.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Our food has been cut off right before our eyes!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!<n id="2" />p>

All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.<n id="1" />p>

The people were delighted with their donations, for they contributed to the <sc>Lordsc> with a willing attitude;<n id="1" /> King David was also very happy.<n id="2" />p>

There was a great celebration in Jerusalem, unlike anything that had occurred in Jerusalem since the time of King Solomon son of David of Israel.<n id="1" />