The Joy of God Over his People
18 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- Greatness of, Described
- Illustrated
- Leads to Him: Comfort Them
- Leads to Him: Deliver Them
- Leads to Him: do Them Good
- Leads to Him: Give Them the Inheritance
- Leads to Him: Prosper Them
- On Account of Their: Faith
- On Account of Their: Fear of Him
- On Account of Their: Hope in his Mercy
- On Account of Their: Meekness
- On Account of Their: Praying to Him
- On Account of Their: Repentance
- On Account of Their: Uprightness
- Solomon
Greatness of, Described
- Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Illustrated
- Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- Luke 15:23–24 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate. …
Leads to Him: Comfort Them
- Isaiah 65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
Leads to Him: Deliver Them
- 2 Samuel 22:20 He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
Leads to Him: do Them Good
- Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
- Jeremiah 32:41 Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
Leads to Him: Give Them the Inheritance
- Numbers 14:8 If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
Leads to Him: Prosper Them
- Deuteronomy 30:9 So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He …
On Account of Their: Faith
- Hebrews 11:5–6 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. …
On Account of Their: Fear of Him
- Psalm 147:11 The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
On Account of Their: Hope in his Mercy
- Psalm 147:11 The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
On Account of Their: Meekness
- Psalm 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.
On Account of Their: Praying to Him
- Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
On Account of Their: Repentance
- Luke 15:7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
- Luke 15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
On Account of Their: Uprightness
- 1 Chronicles 29:17 I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
- Proverbs 11:20 The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
Solomon
- 1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
Related topics
JoyJoy of Angels, when Sinners Repent
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.