Psalm 37:13

13 Aber der HERR lacht sein; denn er sieht, daß sein Tag kommt.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 37:13 In-Context

11 Aber die Elenden werden das Land erben und Lust haben in großem Frieden.

12 Der Gottlose droht dem Gerechten und beißt seine Zähne zusammen über ihn.

13 Aber der HERR lacht sein; denn er sieht, daß sein Tag kommt.

14 Die Gottlosen ziehen das Schwert aus und spannen ihren Bogen, daß sie fällen den Elenden und Armen und schlachten die Frommen.

15 Aber ihr Schwert wird in ihr Herz gehen, und ihr Bogen wird zerbrechen.