Bible verses about "delight" | Rotherham

¹ Lo! my Servant, I will uphold him, My chosen, well–pleased, is my soul,––I have put my spirit upon him, Justice––to the nations, will he bring forth:

¹ Behold me! sending my messenger, who will prepare a way before me,–– and, suddenly, shall come to his temple The Lord whom ye are seeking, even the messenger of the covenant in whom ye are delighting, Lo! he cometh! saith Yahweh of hosts. ² But who may endure the day of his coming? And who is he that can stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ alkali; ³ Therefore will he sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and will purify the sons of Levi, and will smelt them, as gold and as silver; so shall they belong to Yahweh, offering a gift in righteousness. ⁴ Then shall the gift of Judah and Jerusalem, be pleasant to Yahweh,––as in the days of age–past times, and as in the ancient years. ⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts. ⁶ Because, I, Yahweh, have not changed, therefore, ye, the sons of Jacob, have not been utterly consumed.
⁷ From the days of your fathers, have ye departed from my statutes, and not observed them, Return ye unto me, that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts. And yet ye say, Wherein shall we return? ⁸ Will, a son of earth, defraud, God? Nevertheless, ye, have been defrauding me, and yet ye say, Wherein have we defrauded thee? In the tithe and the offering. ⁹ With a curse, have ye been cursing, and yet, me, have ye been defrauding,–– the whole nation. ¹⁰ Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, Yea, I pray you, put me to the proof hereby, saith Yahweh of hosts, whether I will not open to you the sluices of the heavens, and pour out for you blessing, until there be no room. ¹¹ Then will I rebuke, for you, the devourer that he spoil not, for you, the fruit of the ground,–– neither shall the vine in the field, be barren to you, saith Yahweh of hosts. ¹² So shall all the nations, pronounce you happy,––for, ye, shall become, a land of delight, saith Yahweh of hosts.
¹³ Stout against me, have been your words, saith Yahweh,––and yet ye say, What have we spoken, one to another, against thee? ¹⁴ Ye have said, Vain is it to serve God,––and, What profit when we have kept his charge, or when we have walked gloomily before Yahweh of hosts? ¹⁵ Now, therefore, we are pronouncing happy––the proud,––and, the doers of lawlessness have, even been built up, and, they who have put God to the proof, have even been delivered. ¹⁶ Then, they who revered Yahweh, conversed, one with another,––and Yahweh hearkened, and heard, and there was written a book of remembrance before him, for them who revered Yahweh, and for such as thought of his Name. ¹⁷ Therefore shall they be mine, saith Yahweh of hosts, in the day for which, I, am preparing treasure,––and I will deal tenderly with them, just as a man, dealeth tenderly, with his own son who is serving him. ¹⁸ So shall ye return, and see the difference, between the righteous and the lawless,––between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

²² Thou shalt, surely tithe, all the increase of thy seed,––which the field bringeth forth year by year. ²³ And thou shalt eat, before Yahweh thy God––in the place which he shall choose, to make a habitation for his name there,––the tithe of thy corn, thy new wine and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flock,––that thou mayest learn to revere Yahweh thy God, all the days. ²⁴ But, when the way becometh too long for thee, because thou canst not carry it, because the place is too far for thee, which Yahweh thy God shall choose to put his name there,––because Yahweh thy God blesseth thee, ²⁵ then shalt thou turn it into silver,––and shalt bind up the silver in thy hand, and shalt journey unto the place, which Yahweh thy God shall choose; ²⁶ and shalt turn the silver into whatsoever thy soul desireth––of the herd or of the flock, or of wine, or of strong drink, or of whatsoever thy soul shall ask thee for,––and shalt eat it there, before Yahweh thy God, and shalt rejoice, thou and thy household, ²⁷ and, the Levite who is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him,––for he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee. ²⁸ At the end of three years, shalt thou bring forth all the tithe of thine increase, in that year,––and shalt lay it up within thy gates; ²⁹ and the Levite shall come in––because he hath neither portion nor inheritance with thee––and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied,––that Yahweh thy God may bless thee, in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.

¹⁰ Yet a little, therefore, and the lawless one shall not be, Yea thou shalt look about, over his place––and he shall have vanished! ¹¹ But, the patient oppressed–ones, shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves over the abundance of prosperity.

³ Send forth thy light and thy faithfulness, Let, them, lead me, Let them bring me into thy holy mountain, and into thy habitations: ⁴ That I may go in unto the altar of God, Unto GOD, mine exultant joy,––That I may praise thee with the lyre, O God––mine own God! ⁵ Why shouldst thou be cast down, O my soul? And why shouldst thou moan over me, Wait thou for God, for yet shall I praise him, As the triumph of my presence, and my God.

¹⁹ And brought me out, into a large place, he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

¹¹ But, the patient oppressed–ones, shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves over the abundance of prosperity.

² But, in the law of Yahweh, is his delight,––and, in his law, doth he talk with himself day and night.

¹⁷ Yahweh, thy God, in the midst of thee, as a mighty one, will save,––will be glad over thee with rejoicing, will be silent in his love, will exult over thee with shouts of triumph.

²³ If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent, ²⁴ Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent–beds, fine gold: ²⁵ So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee! ²⁶ For, then, in the Almighty, shalt thou take exquisite delight, and shalt lift up––unto GOD––thy face;

⁴ Yea, rest thy delight on Yahweh, that he may give thee the requests of thy heart.