² tc Heb “and its end, joy, is grief.” The suffix may be regarded as an Aramaism, a proleptic suffix referring to “joy.” Or it may be considered a case of wrong word division, moving the ה (he) to read אַחֲרִית הַשִּׂמְחָה (ʾakharit hassimkhah, “after the joy [may be] grief”) rather than אַחֲרִיתָהּ שִׂמְחָה (ʾakharitah simkhah, “after it, joy, grief”).

¹ tn Heb “if I do not lift up Jerusalem over the top of my joy.”

¹ tn Heb “and he led his people out with joy, with a ringing cry, his chosen ones.”

² tn That is, with rich vegetation that brings joy to those who see it.

¹ tn Heb “they are led with joy and happiness, they enter the house of the king.”

¹ tn Heb “causing to be heard to lift up with a voice of joy.”

² tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

² sn Great joy. The reason for eschatological joy was that such events pointed to God’s decisive deliverance (Luke 7:22-23). Note how the acts of healing extend beyond the Twelve here.

³ sn Zacchaeus responded joyfully. Luke likes to mention joy as a response to what God was doing (1:14; 2:10; 10:20; 13:17; 15:5, 32; 19:37; 24:41, 52).

¹ tn The contrast in this proverb is between the “joyful heart” (Heb “a heart of joy,” using an attributive genitive) and the “painful heart” (Heb “pain of the heart,” using a genitive of specification).

¹ sn Psalm 126. Recalling the joy of past deliverance, God’s covenant community asks for a fresh display of God’s power and confidently anticipate their sorrow being transformed into joy.

¹ sn The believers of Pisidian Antioch were not discouraged by the persecution, but instead were filled with joy.

² sn Note that the response to the gospel is rejoicing (joy, cf. Acts 11:23; 13:48).

³ sn Rejoice. Besides the theme of pursuing the lost, the other theme of the parable is the joy of finding them.

³ sn Jesus rejoiced. The account of the mission in 10:1-24 ends with several remarks about joy.

³ sn You will laugh alludes to the joy that comes to God’s people in the salvation to come.

¹ tn Heb “do not rejoice unto jubilation”; cf. KJV “Rejoice not…for joy,” NASB “Do not rejoice…with exultation.”

³ tn Heb “my being is happy in my God”; NAB “in my God is the joy of my soul.”

¹ tn Heb “cause me to hear happiness and joy.” The language is metonymic: the effect of forgiveness (joy) has been substituted for its cause. The psalmist probably alludes here to an assuring word from God announcing that his sins are forgiven (a so-called oracle of forgiveness). The imperfect verbal form is used here to express the psalmist’s wish or request. The synonyms “happiness” and “joy” are joined together as a hendiadys to emphasize the degree of joy he anticipates.

⁵ sn The phrase oil of joy alludes to the fact that the coronation of the king, which was ritually accomplished by anointing his head with olive oil, was a time of great celebration and renewed hope. (If one understands the anointing in conjunction with the wedding ceremony, the “joy” would be that associated with the marriage.) The phrase “oil of joy” also appears in Isa 61:3, where mourners are granted “oil of joy” in conjunction with their deliverance from oppression.