Dancing

Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?’”

As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. — read the full passage →

Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. — read the full passage →

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: — read the full passage →

King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.” — read the full passage →

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation! — read the full passage →

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. — read the full passage →

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. — read the full passage →

As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. — read the full passage →

Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?’”

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. — read the full passage →

Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go out in the dances of those who make merry.

Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! — read the full passage →

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!” — read the full passage →

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!” — read the full passage →

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. — read the full passage →

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” — read the full passage →

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good. — read the full passage →

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. — read the full passage →

His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. — read the full passage →

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun. — read the full passage →

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong. — read the full passage →

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. — read the full passage →

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. — read the full passage →

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph! — read the full passage →

There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? — read the full passage →

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. — read the full passage →

Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions, because Darius the king had sent a decree, did accordingly with all diligence. — read the full passage →

David made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. — read the full passage →

and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’ — read the full passage →

and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled: — read the full passage →

“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. — read the full passage →

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.” — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood. — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. — read the full passage →

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. — read the full passage →

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. — read the full passage →

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them. — read the full passage →

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires. — read the full passage →

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man, — read the full passage →

As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low. — read the full passage →

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me. — read the full passage →