Psalms 37:13

13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.

Psalms 37:13 in Other Translations

13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

13 But the Lord just laughs, for he sees their day of judgment coming.

13 But God isn't losing any sleep; to him they're a joke with no punch line.

13 The Lord laughs at him because He sees that his day is coming.

Psalms 37:13 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 37:13

The Lord shall laugh at him
Have him and his plots in derision, confound his schemes, and disappoint him of his designs, bring him into calamity, and laugh at it; see ( Psalms 2:4 ) ( Proverbs 1:26 ) ;

for he seeth that his day is coming;
either the day of the Lord, which he has appointed to judge the world in, and which comes suddenly, at unawares, as a thief in the night, and is known unto the Lord, though to none else; or the day of the wicked man's ruin and destruction, to which he is appointed, and which is the same; and so the Targum is, "the day of his calamity": which the Lord observes is hastening on, when he will be for ever miserable.

Psalms 37:13 In-Context

11 But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.

12 The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;

13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.

14 The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Samuel 26:10; Psalms 2:4; Ezekiel 12:23