Quotes about Celebration

to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,

These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.

So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your petitions.

Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.