'Laughing stock' in the Bible
And Sara said, "God hath made me a laughingstock: for all that hear, will laugh at me."
Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”
And Moses saw the people, that they [were] running wild because Aaron had allowed them to run wild, for a laughingstock among {their enemies}.
I am a laughingstock to my friends,by calling on God, who answers me.The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us.
You make us a joke among the nations,a laughingstock among the peoples.
You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.You seized me and prevailed.I am a laughingstock all the time;everyone ridicules me.
And will make them to be a reproof, a common byword, a laughingstock and shame, in all the places where I shall scatter them.
“Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”
“How broken it is! They wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is ashamed. Moab will become a laughingstock and a shock to all those around him.”
For why? I have sworn by myself, sayeth the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a wilderness; an open shame; a laughingstock and cursing; and her cities shall be a continual desert.
I am a laughingstock to all my people,mocked by their songs all day long.
By your blood that you poured out you have become guilty, and by your idols that you made you have become unclean, and you have brought your days near, {and your appointed years have come}. Therefore I have made you a disgrace for the nations and a laughingstock to all of the countries.
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "You'll drink from your sister's cup, which is both large and deep. You'll become a laughing stock and an object of derision, since the cup is so full!
They return but not to the Most High. They are like a defective weapon. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their raging tongue, and they will be a laughingstock in the land of Egypt."