Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’

But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.”

But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.

And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her.”

she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.

So the couriers went 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.

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.

Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

But you, O Lord, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.

You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”