Genesis 21:6

Sarah rejoices that God has made her laugh, and all who hear will laugh with her. Her earlier doubting laughter turns to joy.

Cross-references · 15

• Ps 126:2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
• Isa 54:1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
• Gen 17:17Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
• Luke 1:58Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.
• Isa 49:21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”
• Luke 1:14You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.
• Gal 4:27–28For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”
• Luke 1:46–55Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.
• Ps 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
• Rom 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
• Gen 18:12–15Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
• Heb 11:11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
• John 16:21–22A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
• 1 Sam 1:26She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
• Isa 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

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