The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
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The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
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The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
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The Lord doth laugh at him; for He seeth that his day is coming.
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Passages linked to Psalms 37:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 2:4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
- Proverbs 1:26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
- 1 Samuel 26:10 David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
- Daniel 5:26 “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
- Ezekiel 21:25 “ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
- Ezekiel 21:29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
- Job 18:20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
- Jeremiah 50:27 Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for…
Psa 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Ver. 13. The Lord will laugh at him] See Psa 2:4. The righteous also shall have a time to laugh at him, Psa 52:6, and meanwhile comforteth himself with this, that God laughed at him, and that therefore himself had no great cause to cry, since ridendo irritos reddit, by laughing at them he blasted all their designs, and that with disgrace; men love not to be laughed at.
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For he seeth that his day is coming] His dismal day, his death’s day (which will also be his doomsday), that day wherein God hath determined to slay them with their own sword, and to save the righteous; as it is in the two next verses. But especially that last and great day of the world, wherein
Dicetur reprobis, Ite, Venite probis.
He will say to the reprobate, go, and come to the righteous.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Shall laugh at him, i.e. shall despise and deride…
Shall laugh at him, i.e. shall despise and deride all their hopes and endeavours against the good, as most vain and foolish.
His day; either,
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1. God’s day, which is a usual phrase, as Isa 2:12; 13:9. Or,
2. His own day, as 1Sa 26:10; Eze 21:25,29. Both signify the same thing, the day appointed by God for his punishment or destruction, as Isa 9:4; Jer 50:27.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The wicked have drawn out the sword,.... That is,…
The wicked have drawn out the sword,.... That is, out of the scabbard; they drew upon the righteous, in order to sheath it in them; or they sharpened the sword, as Aben Ezra observes some interpret the word; it may be literally rendered, "opened the sword" (q), which before lay hid in the scabbard:
and have bent their bow; having put the arrow in it, in order to shoot. The former expression may design the more open, and this the more secret way of acting against the righteous; and their view in both is
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to cast down the poor and needy, who are so, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; to cause such to fall either into sin, or into some calamity or another:
and to slay such as be of upright conversation; who walk according to the rule of the word of God, and as becomes the Gospel of Christ: nothing less than the blood and life of these men will satisfy the wicked; and it is an aggravation of their wickedness that they should attempt to hurt men of such character who are poor and needy, holy, harmless, inoffensive, and upright; and this points at the reason why they hate them, and seek their ruin, because of the holiness and uprightness of their lives; see Joh 15:19.
(q) "aperuerunt gladium", Gejerus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain His day - The day appointed by God for…
His day - The day appointed by God for his punishment or destruction.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 13. He seeth that his day is coming.]…
Verse 13. He seeth that his day is coming.] The utter desolation of your oppressors is at hand. All this may be said of every wicked man.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Lord shall laugh at him - See the…
The Lord shall laugh at him - See the notes at Psa 2:4. That is, he will regard all his attempts as vain - as not worthy of serious thought or care. The language is that which we use when there is no fear or apprehension felt. It is not that God is unfeeling, or that he is disposed to deride man, but that he regards all such efforts as vain, and as not demanding notice on the ground of anything to be apprehended from them.
For he seeth that his day is coming - The day of his destruction or overthrow. He sees that the wicked man cannot be ultimately successful, but that destruction is coming upon him. There is nothing ultimately to be apprehended from his designs, for his overthrow is certain.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Compare Psa 2:4).
(Compare Psa 2:4).
seeth--knows certainly.
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his day--of punishment, long delayed, shall yet come (Heb 10:37).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. The Lord shall laugh—See on Psa_2:4.
13. The Lord shall laugh—See on Psa_2:4.
His day is coming— The day which God has appointed for his just retribution.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. Doth laugh (Psa_2:4 note) … for he hath…
13. Doth laugh (Psa_2:4 note) … for he hath seen. The punishment of the wicked has been foreseen and foreordained from the first.
his day] The appointed day of retribution and ruin. Cp. Psa_137:7; Oba_1:12; 1Sa_26:10; Job_18:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) Shall laugh.—Comp. Psa_2:4, Note; his day, i.e., the…
(13) Shall laugh.—Comp. Psa_2:4, Note; his day, i.e., the day of trouble or retribution for the wicked, as we see from Psa_137:7; Job_18:20, etc.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Lord shall laugh at him. (comp. Psa_2:4 Psa_59:8;…
The Lord shall laugh at him. (comp. Psa_2:4 Psa_59:8; and see the comment on the former passage) For he seeth that his day is coming; i.e. God sees that the day of the wicked man"s visitation is approaching. (see above, vers. 2, 9, 10; and comp. 1Sa_26:10)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 13. The Lord shall laugh at him. The…
Ver. 13. The Lord shall laugh at him. The godly man needs not trouble himself, but leave well deserved vengeance to be dealt out by the Lord, who will utterly deride the malice of the good man's enemies. Let the proud scorner gnash his teeth and foam at the mouth; he has one to deal with who will look down upon him and his ravings with serene contempt. For he seeth that his day is coming. The evil man does not see how close his destruction is upon his heels; he boasts of crushing others when the foot of justice is already uplifted to trample him as the mire of the streets. Sinners, in the hand of an angry God, and yet plotting against his children! Poor souls, thus to run upon the point of Jehovahs's spear.
Ver. 13. The Lord shall laugh at him, etc. He seems to provide very coldly for our consolation under sorrow, for he represents God as merely laughing. But if God values highly our salvation, why does he not set himself to resist the fury of our enemies, and vigorously oppose them? We know that this, as has been said in Ps 2:4, is a proper trial of our patience when God does not come forth at once, armed for the discomfiture of the ungodly, but connives for a time, and withholds his hand. Lest the flesh should still murmur and complain, demanding why God should only laugh at the wicked, and not rather take vengeance upon them, the reason is added, that he sees the day of their destruction at hand. For he seeth that his day is coming. John Calvin.
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Ver. 13. For he seeth that his day is coming. He laughs at such poor worms, who make themselves so great upon the earth, and act so loftily in their impotence, seeing it must so soon be over with them. Berleb. Bible, quoted by E. W. Hengstenberg.
Ver. 13. For he seeth that his day is coming. His dismal day, his death's day, which will also be his doom's day. John Trapp.
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