² Serve Jehovah with joy, come before him with singing.

² We come before His face with thanksgiving, With psalms we shout to Him.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

⁴⁷ `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --

⁴⁶ Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,

⁴⁷ praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

²¹ They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men,

²² And they sacrifice sacrifices of thanksgiving, And recount His works with singing.

²³ My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,

⁴ So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.

⁵ As `with' milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And `with' singing lips doth my mouth praise.

⁴ These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!

² And Hezekiah appointeth the courses of the priests, and of the Levites, by their courses, each according to his service, of the priests and of the Levites, for burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to give praise in the gates of the camps of Jehovah.

²⁷ And they turn back, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, to go back unto Jerusalem with joy, for Jehovah hath made them rejoice over their enemies.

²⁸ And they come in to Jerusalem with psalteries, and with harps, and with trumpets, unto the house of Jehovah.

⁶⁶ On the eighth day he hath sent the people away, and they bless the king, and go to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart for all the good that Jehovah hath done to David His servant, and to Israel His people.

¹⁴ and thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who `are' within thy gates.

¹¹ And thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who `is' within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who `are' in thy midst, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there,

¹² and ye have rejoiced before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your handmaids, and the Levite who `is' within your gates, for he hath no part and inheritance with you.