Yesaya 9:3

9:3 You ¹  have enlarged the nation;

you give them great joy. ² 

They rejoice in your presence

as harvesters rejoice;

as warriors celebrate ³  when they divide up the plunder.

Yesaya 35:10

35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. ⁴ 

They will enter Zion with a happy shout.

Unending joy will crown them, ⁵ 

happiness and joy will overwhelm ⁶  them;

grief and suffering will disappear. ⁷ 

Yesaya 51:11

51:11 Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return;

they will enter Zion with a happy shout.

Unending joy will crown them, ⁸ 

happiness and joy will overwhelm ⁹  them;

grief and suffering will disappear. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 24:11

24:11 They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; ¹¹ 

all joy turns to sorrow; ¹² 

celebrations disappear from the earth. ¹³ 

Yesaya 29:19

29:19 The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord;

the poor among humankind will take delight ¹⁴  in the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ 

Yesaya 16:10

16:10 Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards,

and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts;

no one treads out juice in the wine vats ¹⁶  –

I have brought the joyful shouts to an end. ¹⁷ 

Yesaya 22:13

22:13 But look, there is outright celebration! ¹⁸ 

You say, “Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep,

eat meat and drink wine.

Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” ¹⁹ 

Yesaya 30:29

30:29 You will sing

as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival.

You will be happy like one who plays a flute

as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel. ²⁰ 

Yesaya 55:12

55:12 Indeed you will go out with joy;

you will be led along in peace;

the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you,

and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.

Yesaya 61:7

61:7 Instead of shame, you will get a double portion; ²¹ 

instead of humiliation, they will rejoice over the land they receive. ²² 

Yes, ²³  they will possess a double portion in their land

and experience lasting joy.

Yesaya 66:5

66:5 Hear the word of the Lord,

you who respect what he has to say! ²⁴ 

Your countrymen, ²⁵  who hate you

and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name,

say, “May the Lord be glorified,

then we will witness your joy.” ²⁶ 

But they will be put to shame.

Yesaya 51:3

51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;

he will console all her ruins.

He will make her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the Garden of the Lord.

Happiness and joy will be restored to ²⁷  her,

thanksgiving and the sound of music.

[9:3]  ¹ sn The Lord is addressed directly in vv. 3-4.

[9:3]  ² tc The Hebrew consonantal text reads “You multiply the nation, you do not make great the joy.” The particle לֹא (lo’, “not”) is obviously incorrect; the marginal reading has לוֹ (lo, “to him”). In this case, one should translate, “You multiply the nation, you increase his (i.e., their) joy.” However, the parallelism is tighter if one emends הַגּוֹי לוֹ (hagoy lo, “the nation, to him”) to הַגִּילָה (haggilah, “the joy,” a noun attested in Isa 65:18), which corresponds to הַשִּׂמְחָה (hasimkhah, “the joy”) later in the verse (H. Wildberger, Isaiah, 1:386). As attractive as this reading is, it has not textual evidence supporting it. The MT reading (accepting the marginal reading “to him” for the negative particle “not”) affirms that Yahweh caused the nation to grow in population and increased their joy.

[9:3]  ³ tn Heb “as they are happy.” The word “warriors” is supplied in the translation to clarify the word picture. This last simile comes close to reality, for vv. 4-5 indicate that the people have won a great military victory over their oppressors.

[35:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”

[35:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.

[35:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”

[35:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

[51:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.

[51:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “overtake” (so NIV); NASB “they will obtain.”

[51:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee.”

[24:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[there is] an outcry over the wine in the streets.”

[24:11]  ¹² tn Heb “all joy turns to evening,” the darkness of evening symbolizing distress and sorrow.

[24:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “the joy of the earth disappears.”

[29:19]  ¹⁴ tn Or “will rejoice” (NIV, NCV, NLT).

[29:19]  ¹⁵ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[16:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “wine in the vats the treader does not tread.”

[16:10]  ¹⁷ sn The Lord appears to be the speaker here. See 15:9.

[22:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “happiness and joy.”

[22:13]  ¹⁹ tn The prophet here quotes what the fatalistic people are saying. The introductory “you say” is supplied in the translation for clarification; the concluding verb “we die” makes it clear the people are speaking. The six verbs translated as imperatives are actually infinitives absolute, functioning here as finite verbs.

[30:29]  ²⁰ tn Heb “[you will have] joy of heart, like the one going with a flute to enter the mountain of the Lord to the Rock of Israel.” The image here is not a foundational rock, but a rocky cliff where people could hide for protection (for example, the fortress of Masada).

[61:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “instead of your shame, a double portion.”

[61:7]  ²² tn Heb “and [instead of] humiliation they will rejoice [over] their portion.” The term תָחָת (takhat, “instead of”) is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[61:7]  ²³ tn Heb “therefore” (so KJV, NASB); NIV “and so.”

[66:5]  ²⁴ tn Heb “who tremble at his word.”

[66:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “brothers” (so NASB, NIV); NRSV “Your own people”; NLT “Your close relatives.”

[66:5]  ²⁶ tn Or “so that we might witness your joy.” The point of this statement is unclear.

[51:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “found in” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).