'Laughter' in the Bible
and Sarah saith, 'God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'
While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.
Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, 'Jehovah did great things with these.'
Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy is affliction.
Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What is this it is doing?'
Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.
For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.
Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The cup of thy sister thou dost drink, The deep and the wide one, (Thou art for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain.
And at kings it doth scoff, And princes are a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it.
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
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- Laugh (26 instances)