25 Bible Verses about Laughter

Sarah said: God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me.

Strength and honor are her clothing. She will rejoice in time to come.

He told them to leave: For the girl is not dead, but sleeps. They all scornfully laughed at him.

They laughed him to scorn. He sent them all out of the house. Then he took the father, mother and his companions and went to the child.

They laughed him to scorn knowing that she was dead.

When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.

The righteous also sees, and fears, and laughs at him. They say:

They scoff at kings, and princes are derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build earthen ramps and capture them.

The One who dwells in heaven laughs. Jehovah scoffs at them.

Jehovah laughs at him, for he sees that his day will come.

O Jehovah, you laugh at them. You make fun of all the nations.

I also will laugh at your trouble. I will mock when your fear comes.

Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with joyful songs. Then the nations said: Jehovah has done spectacular things for them.

Blessed are you who hunger now for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now: for you shall laugh.

You will laugh at destruction and starvation. You will not be afraid of wild beasts.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet and make them drunk, that they may become jubilant. Then they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up, declares Jehovah.

Even in laughter the heart has pain; and joy may end in grief.

Woe to you who are full now! For you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! You will mourn and weep.

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

But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us. They laughed at us and said: What are you doing? Will you go against the king?

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself. She said to herself: After I have grown old, shall I have a baby? My lord is old also. Jehovah said to Abraham: Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life. Sarah shall have a son!read more.
Sarah denied saying: I did not laugh! She was afraid. He said: But you did laugh!

All who see me laugh at me. Insults pour from their mouths. They shake their heads and say: Put yourself in Jehovah's hands. Let Jehovah save him! Let God rescue him since he is pleased with him!