Everyday words
Mirth
Start with Genesis 31:27, where the Bible uses the word mirth in a real sentence: “Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:27
“Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;”
2. Proverbs 14:13
“Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.”
3. Ecclesiastes 2:1
“I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.”
4. Ecclesiastes 2:2
“I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?””
5. Ecclesiastes 7:4
“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”
6. Ecclesiastes 8:15
“Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.”
7. Isaiah 24:8
“The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.”
8. Isaiah 24:11
“There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 31:27
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whydidyoufleesecretly,andme,anddidn’ttellme,thatIhavesentyouawaywithmirthandwithwithtambourineandwithharp;