A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.