Dancing

They praise His name in a dance, With timbrel and harp sing praise to Him.

A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me <FI>with<Fi> joy.

And Miriam the inspired one, sister of Aaron, taketh the timbrel in her hand, and all the women go out after her, with timbrels and with choruses;

Praise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men--together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

And Jephthah cometh into Mizpeh, unto his house, and lo, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and save her alone, he hath none, son or daughter.

And he bringeth him down, and lo, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and feasting, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength. — read the full passage →

They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,

Singers have been before, Behind <FI>are<Fi> players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

and the servants of Achish say unto him, `Is not this David king of the land? is it not of this one they sing in dances, saying, `Saul smote among his thousands, and David among his myriads?'

And it cometh to pass, when he hath drawn near unto the camp, that he seeth the calf, and the dancing, and the anger of Moses burneth, and he casteth out of his hands the tables, and breaketh them under the mount;

and they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.

And Miriam the inspired one, sister of Aaron, taketh the timbrel in her hand, and all the women go out after her, with timbrels and with choruses; — read the full passage →

and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God;

And David is dancing with all strength before Jehovah, and David is girded with a linen ephod, — read the full passage →

And David speaketh to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah hath delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, — read the full passage →

And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said--`John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.' — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. Jehovah, in Thy strength is the king joyful, In Thy salvation how greatly he rejoiceth. — read the full passage →

thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness; — read the full passage →

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;

Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains <FI>are<Fi> in Thee!

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

And all the people are gathered as one man unto the broad place that <FI>is<Fi> before the water-gate, and they say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, that Jehovah commanded Israel. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in their coming in, in David's returning from smiting the Philistine, that the women come out from all the cities of Israel to sing--also the dancers--to meet Saul the king, with tabrets, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments; — read the full passage →

And gone forth from them hath thanksgiving, And the voice of playful ones, And I have multiplied them and they are not few, And made them honourable, and they are not small.

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

Is not this David, of whom they answer in choruses, saying, Saul hath smitten among his thousands, and David among his myriads?'

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men--together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow, — read the full passage →

Again do I build thee, And thou hast been built, O virgin of Israel, Again thou puttest on thy tabrets, And hast gone out in the chorus of the playful.

A Psalm of Thanksgiving. Shout to Jehovah, all the earth. — read the full passage →

Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me <FI>with<Fi> joy. — read the full passage →

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'

said with a loud voice, `Stand up on thy feet upright;' and he was springing and walking,

they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.

Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

And He putteth in my mouth a new song, `Praise to our God.' Many do see and fear, and trust in Jehovah.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice; — read the full passage →

And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

They lift <FI>themselves<Fi> up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.

And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within <FI>are<Fi> full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;' — read the full passage →

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience; — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind; — read the full passage →

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.' — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better. — read the full passage →

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you. — read the full passage →

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'

They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose, — read the full passage →

His hands rings of gold, set with beryl, His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires, — read the full passage →

So <FI>is<Fi> my friend among the daughters! — read the full passage →

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it <FI>is<Fi> thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun. — read the full passage →

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms. — read the full passage →

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: — read the full passage →

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend--from counsel of the soul. — read the full passage →

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah. — read the full passage →

For jealousy <FI>is<Fi> the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. — read the full passage →

Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. A Psalm. All ye peoples, clap the hand, Shout to God with a voice of singing, — read the full passage →

In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief exult.

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin? — read the full passage →

and he is supporting Hadassah--she <FI>is<Fi> Esther--daughter of his uncle, for she hath neither father nor mother, and the young woman <FI>is<Fi> of fair form, and of good appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother hath Mordecai taken her to him for a daughter. — read the full passage →

Then Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-Boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king hath sent, so they have done speedily; — read the full passage →

And he maketh for himself houses in the city of David, and prepareth a place for the ark of God, and stretcheth out for it a tent. — read the full passage →

and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances--then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin; — read the full passage →

For no enchantment <FI>is<Fi> against Jacob, Nor divination against Israel, At the time it is said of Jacob and Israel, What hath God wrought! — read the full passage →

and a spirit of jealousy hath passed over him, and he hath been jealous of his wife, and she hath been defiled; --or, a spirit of jealousy hath passed over him, and he hath been jealous of his wife, and she hath not been defiled-- — read the full passage →

Naphtali <FI>is<Fi> a hind sent away, Who is giving beauteous young ones.

And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day the sixth. — read the full passage →

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;' — read the full passage →

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter; — read the full passage →

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others, — read the full passage →

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood; — read the full passage →

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens. — read the full passage →

At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus, — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel: — read the full passage →

They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms <FI>is<Fi> in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known. — read the full passage →

Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

My people--its exactors <FI>are<Fi> sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people--thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up. — read the full passage →

Thorns--snares <FI>are<Fi> in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them. — read the full passage →

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips <FI>is<Fi> only to want. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured. — read the full passage →

surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved,

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, — read the full passage →

As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled. — read the full passage →

Thou hast sorely thrust me to fall, And Jehovah hath helped me. — read the full passage →