merry

Againe I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgine of Israel, thou shalt againe be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt goe forth in the daunces of them that make merry.

1611 marginal noteOr, timbrels.

1611 marginal noteExod. 15.20. iudg.11.34.

And I will say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods layd vp for many yeeres, take thine ease, eate, drinke, and be merry.

And bring hither the fatted calfe, and kill it, and let vs eate and be merrie.

For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe; hee was lost, & is found. And they began to be merie.

And he answering said to his father, Loe, these many yeeres doe I serue thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandement, and yet thou neuer gauest mee a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

It was meete that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and was lost, and is found.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing Psalmes.

And they that dwell vpon the earth shall reioyce ouer them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, because these two Prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.