24 Bible Verses about Laughter

And Sarah said, A laughing, hath God made for me, - Everyone that heareth will laugh with me.

Strength and dignity, are her clothing, and she laugheth at the time to come:

Give place! for the maiden died not, but is sleeping. And they began to deride him.

and they were deriding him. But, he, thrusting all forth, taketh with him the father of the child, and the mother, and them who were with him, - and entereth where the child was;

And they were deriding him, knowing that she died.

What time, on high, she vibrateth her wings, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.

As a straw, is a club accounted, and he laugheth at the whir of the javelin;

The righteous shall both see and fear, And, over him, shall laugh:

And, he, over kings, will make merry, and, nobles, will be a scorn to him: he, at any fortress, will laugh, once he hath heaped up dust, he hath captured it!

He that sitteth in the heavens, will laugh, - My Lord, will mock at them:

My Lord, shall laugh at him, for he seeth, that his day, will come.

Thou, therefore, O Yahweh, wilt laugh at them, Thou wilt mock at all nations.

I also, at your calamity, will laugh, I will mock, when cometh your dread;

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

At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;

At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:

When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age-abiding sleep and not wake, - Declareth Yahweh.

Even, in laughter, the heart may be in pain, and, the latter end of gladness, be grief.

Alas! for you, ye who are filled full now, for ye shall hunger. Alas! ye that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection;

But, when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and poured contempt upon us, - and said, What is this thing which ye would do? against the king, would ye rebel?

So the runners were passing from city to city throughout the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun, - -but they were laughing them to scorn, and mocking them.

So then Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am past age, hath there come to me pleasure, my lord, also being old? And Yahweh said unto Abraham, - Wherefore now did Sarah laugh saying. Can it really and truly be that I should bear, seeing that have become old? Is anything, too wonderful for Yahweh? At the appointed time, I will return unto thee, at the quickening season and Sarah, shall have a son.read more.
And Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not, For she was afraid. And he said - Nay! but thou didst laugh!

All that see me, laugh at me, - They open wide the mouth, They shake the head: - He should trust in Yahweh - let him deliver him, - Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.