Verse 16

And vnto the Iewes there was come light and gladnesse, ioy and worship.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 97:11 : 11 There is sowen a lyght for the ryghteous: and gladnesse for such as be vpryght of heart.
• Prov 11:10 : 10 When it goeth well with the ryghteous the citie is mery: and when the vngodly perishe there is gladnesse.
• Esth 4:1-3 : 1 When Mardocheus perceaued all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth with asshes, and went out into the middest of the citie, and cryed loude and lamentably, 2 And came before the kinges gate: but he might not enter within the kinges gate, because he had sackcloth on. 3 And in all prouinces, countries, and places, as farre as the kinges worde & commaundement extented, there was great lamentatio among the Iewes, fasting, weeping, and mourning, and many lay in sackeclothes and in asshes.
• Ps 30:5-9 : 5 For a litle short time passeth in his anger, a life is spente in his good wyll: at euening weeping shall begin the night, but ioy commeth in the morning. 6 And in my prosperitie I saide, I shall neuer haue a fal: 7 thou God of thy goodnes hadst made my hyll so strong. 8 Neuerthelesse, when thou dydst turne thy face, I was troubled: then I cryed vnto thee O God, then made I my humble prayers to thee my Lorde. 9 Saying what profite is there in my blood when I go downe to the pit? shal the dust geue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth? 10 Heare me O God, and haue mercy vppon me: O God be thou my helper. 11 And foorthwith thou hast turned my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put of my sackcloth, and gyrded me with gladnes.
• Esth 4:16 : 16 Go thou thy way, and gather together all the Iewes that are founde at Susan, and fast ye for me, that ye eate not and drinke not in three dayes neither day nor night, I and my maydens wyll fast likewyse: and so wyll I go in to the king, which thing yet is contrary to the commaundement: and if I perishe, I perishe.
• Esth 9:17 : 17 This they did on the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, & on the fourteenth day of the same moneth rested they, which day they held with feasting and gladnesse.
• Ps 18:28 : 28 Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght.
• Isa 30:29-30 : 29 And ye shall sing lyke as in the night when the holy solempnitie beginneth, and ye shall haue gladnesse of heart, like as when one commeth with a pipe vnto the hill of the Lorde, and to the most mightie one of Israel. 30 And the Lorde shall cause his glorious voyce to be hearde, and shall declare his stretched out arme with a terrible countenaunce, & with the flambe of a consuming fire, with noysome lightening, with a showre, and with hayle stones.
• Isa 35:10 : 10 And the redeemed of the Lorde I say shall conuert and come to Sion with thankesgeuyng: euerlastyng ioy shall they haue, pleasure and gladnesse shalbe among them, and as for all sorowe and heauinesse it shall vanishe.
• Ps 112:4 : 4 There ariseth vp light in the darknes: vnto them that deale vprightly he is merciful, and louing, and righteous.
• Prov 4:18-19 : 18 The path of the righteous shineth, as the light that is euer bryghter and bryghter vnto the perfect day. 19 But the way of the vngodly is as the darkenesse, they knowe not where they fall.