Lexicon :: Strong's H7832 - śāḥaq

When they were in good spirits,[fn] they said, “Bring Samson here to entertain us.” So they brought Samson from prison, and he entertained them. They had him stand between the pillars.

The temple was full of men and women; all the leaders of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

As they danced, the women sang:

Saul has killed his thousands,

but David his tens of thousands.

Then Abner said to Joab, “Let’s have the young men get up and compete in front of us.”

“Let them get up,” Joab replied.

David and the whole house of Israel were dancing before the LORD with all kinds of fir wood instruments,[fn] lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums,[fn] and cymbals.

David replied to Michal, “It was before the LORD who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will dance before the LORD,

David and all Israel were dancing with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping[fn] and dancing, and she despised him in her heart.

The couriers traveled from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the inhabitants[fn] laughed at them and mocked them.

You will laugh at destruction and hunger

and not fear the land’s wild creatures.

If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it;

they were thrilled at[fn] the light of my countenance.

But now they mock me,

men younger than I am,

whose fathers I would have refused to put

with my sheep dogs.

It scoffs at the noise of the village

and never hears the shouts of a driver.

When she proudly[fn] spreads her wings,

she laughs at the horse and its rider.

He laughs at fear, since he is afraid of nothing;

he does not run from the sword.

The hills yield food for him,

while all sorts of wild animals play there.

Can you play with him like a bird

or put him on a leash[fn] for your girls?

A club is regarded as stubble,

and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

The one enthroned[fn] in heaven laughs;

the Lord ridicules them.

The Lord laughs at him

because he sees that his day is coming.

The righteous will see and fear,

and they will derisively say about that hero,[fn]

But you laugh at them, LORD;

you ridicule all the nations.

There the ships move about,

and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.

“I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity.

I will mock when terror strikes you,

“I was a skilled craftsman[fn] beside him.

I was his[fn] delight every day,

always rejoicing before him.

so is the person who deceives his neighbor

and says, “I was only joking! ”

If a wise person goes to court with a fool,

there will be ranting and raving but no resolution.[fn]

Strength and honor are her clothing,

and she can laugh at the time to come.

a time to weep and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn and a time to dance;

I never sat with the band of revelers,

and I did not celebrate with them.

Because your hand was on me, I sat alone,

for you filled me with indignation.

Thanksgiving will come out of them,

a sound of rejoicing.

I will multiply them, and they will not decrease;

I will honor them, and they will not be insignificant.

Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,

Virgin Israel.

You will take up your tambourines again

and go out in joyful dancing.

During the days of her affliction and homelessness

Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings

that were hers in days of old.

When her people fell into the adversary’s hand,

she had no one to help.

The adversaries looked at her,

laughing over her downfall.

They mock kings,

and rulers are a joke to them.

They laugh at every fortress

and build siege ramps to capture it.

“The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them.”