'Laughter' in the Bible
And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me."
Yet he will fill your mouth [with] laughter and your lips [with] a shout of joy.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great [things] for these [people]."
Even in laughter, a heart may be sad, and the end of joy [may be] grief.
I said of laughter, "[It is] folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"
Sorrow [is] better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made good.
Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so also the laughter of fools. This also [is] vanity!
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You will drink the deep and wide cup of your sister; you will be as laughter and as scorn; {the cup holds so much}!
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.