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When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. 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 on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.

David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.

As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”