Pleasure

So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.

In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,

To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

…therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

…traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.