Ecclesiastes 3:4

God Has Ordained The Ebb And Flow Of Human Activities

³ A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; ⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; ⁵ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Time to Laugh

Time to Weep

Exodus 15:20

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me.

2 Samuel 6:16

And as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.

Nehemiah 8:9-12

And Nehemiah, that is, the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that explained to the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Jehovah your God: mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 9:1-38

And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

Psalm 30:5

For a moment is passed in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.

Psalm 126:1-2

{A Song of degrees.} When Jehovah turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Psalm 126:5-6

They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing:

Isaiah 22:12-13

And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will have been taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 11:17

say, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced: we have mourned to you, and ye have not wailed.

Luke 1:13-14

But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy supplication has been heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

Luke 1:58

And her neighbours and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.

Luke 6:21-25

Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

John 16:20-22

Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

James 4:9

Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.