But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.
Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?
Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.
And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.
And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.
I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.
The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.
Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.
For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.
And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.
In the same way the chief priests, laughing at him among themselves with the scribes, said, A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself.
And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.
He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him.
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.
If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.
Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:
But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.
You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.
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