a ringing cry: a loud, high, resounding shout that carries far, raised in glad celebration or in urgent pleading
At its heart this word names a sound, not a feeling. It is the piercing, ringing cry that breaks out of a person at full voice, the kind of shout that rings across a distance and turns heads. What fills that cry depends entirely on the moment. The same ringing voice can carry overflowing joy or desperate need.
Most often it is the shout of gladness: people singing for joy over what God has done, the tents of the rescued ringing with it, mountains and coastlands pictured breaking out in it. This is not quiet, private happiness but noise made on purpose, celebration you can hear from far off.
But the very same word is used for the cry that goes up to God for help. When someone prays in trouble and asks God to hear their cry, this is the word for that loud, earnest plea, again and again set right beside the word for prayer. In Jeremiah it is the cry God says he will refuse to listen to. Once, after a battle, it is simply a shout that runs through an army as word spreads.
So the thread that ties every use together is the ringing sound itself: a cry loud enough to fill the air and reach a listener, whether it rises in triumph or in trouble. The reader has to look at the setting to know which.