rejoice

Object

• thou: Rejoice, thou who from the morning of thy life hast served Him Alone!
• heart: The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
• earth: Now it wells up: Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains!
• Christian: Rejoice, ye first Christians who brought wisdom from Rome and never cease to intercede for us with Christ our God.

Preposition: at

sight: In a moment they were all out of the chaise, rejoicing at the sight of each other.

Modifying Another Word

• exceedingly: I rejoiced exceedingly to hear of the death of our sister Molly Godwin.
• greatly: It says this: Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!
• together: O Christ, king of kings, we pray to thee, rejoicing together; have mercy.

Followed by an intransitive particle

over: Rather than rejoicing over our tidy asset base, we complain about the downside of the property market.

Used with why or when

when: Heath thought himself thereby hard treated and he rejoiced when Thatcher was ousted from power.

Infinitive complement

• hear: My Love in Heaven, bid me rejoice To hear once more love's earthly voice!
• see: Costa rejoiced to see the remarkable change in her daughter.

Preposition: in

• midst: You are to rejoice in the midst of trial.
• fellowship: Rejoicing in the fellowship of the church on earth, let us pray with Chad and all the Saints in glory.
• blessing: Do you rejoice more in the blessing that comes to others than you do in that which comes to you?
• hope: We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
• glory: One day just rejoicing in the glories and the beauties of the Son of God!
• grace: Mr. Gwynne, of Garth, accompanied us, and rejoiced greatly in the grace given them.

Preposition: with

• joy: It didn't matter what was happening to him, he continued to rejoice with joy.
• truth: Tho love does not delight in evil but rather rejoices with the truth.