Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless.

A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything.

But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the Lord.

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.

They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them.

he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him.

But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.