25 Bible Verses about Laughter
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Strength and ornament her clothing; and she will laugh to the last day.
He says to them, Give way; for the girl is not dead but sleeps; and they mocked him.
And they laughed at him. And he, having cast them all out, takes the father and mother of the young child, and those with him, and goes where the young child was lying.
For the time she will lash herself up upon height, she will laugh at the horse and at his rider.
The bludgeon was reckoned to him for stubble: and he will laugh at the shaking of the javelin.
And he shall scoff at kings, and princes a derision to him: at every fortress he shall deride, and he shall heap up dust and take it
And thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt deride at all the nations.
Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;
Then our mouth will be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then shall they say among the nations, Jehovah magnified to do with those.
Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.
At desolation and at hunger thou shalt laugh, and from the beasts of the earth thou shalt not fear.
Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with shouts of joy.
In their heat I will set their drinkings, and I made them drunken so that they shall exult, and sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rouse up, says Jehovah.
Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.
Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.
Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.
And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they will mock to us and despise us, and say, What this word that ye do? are ye bearing rule against the king?
And the runners will be passing from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and even to Zebulon: and laughing upon them, and deriding over them.
And Sarah will laugh within her, saying, After it has not been to me till now, and my lord, being old. And Jehovah will say to Abraham, For what did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall truly even I bring forth, and I have become old? Shall the word of Jehovah be difficult, at the appointed time? I will return to thee, according to the time of life, and a son to Sarah.read more.
And Sarah will deny, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he will say, Nay, for thou didst laugh.
All seeing me will deride me: they will gape with the lip, they will shake the head. He rolled upon Jehovah, he will deliver him: he will deliver him for he delighted in him.
From Thematic Bible
Laughter » Attributed to God
And thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt deride at all the nations.
Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;
Laughter » A time for
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance: