Psalms 37:13

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

Update Bible Version
The Lord will laugh at him; For he sees that his day is coming.

New Century Version
But the Lord laughs at the wicked, because he sees that their day is coming.

New English Translation
The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.

Webster's Bible Translation
The Lord will laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

World English Bible
The Lord will laugh at him, For he sees that his day is coming.

Amplified Bible
The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous], For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But the Lord schal scorne the synnere; for he biholdith that his day cometh.

Berean Standard Bible
but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

Contemporary English Version
but the Lord laughs and knows their time is coming soon.

American Standard Version
The Lord will laugh at him; For he seeth that his day is coming.

Bible in Basic English
He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

Complete Jewish Bible
but Adonai laughs at the wicked, knowing his day will come.

Darby Translation
The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.

Easy-to-Read Version
But our Lord will laugh at them. He will make sure they get what they deserve.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The Lord doth laugh at him; for He seeth that his day is coming.

King James Version (1611)
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is comming.

New Life Bible
The Lord laughs at him because He sees his day is coming.

New Revised Standard
but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that their day is coming.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But the Lord shall laugh him to scorne: for he seeth, that his day is comming.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD shall laugh at him; for he sees that his day is coming.

Good News Translation
But the Lord laughs at wicked people, because he knows they will soon be destroyed.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My Lord, shall laugh at him, for he seeth, that his day, will come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-13) But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.

Revised Standard Version
but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde shall laugh him to scorne: for he seeth that his day is comming.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foresees that his day will come.

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord laughs at himbecause he sees that his day is coming.

Hebrew Names Version
The Lord will laugh at him, For he sees that his day is coming.

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

Lexham English Bible
The Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Literal Translation
the Lord laughs at him, for He sees that his day is coming.

Young's Literal Translation
The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye LORDE laugheth him to scorne, for he seith yt his daye is cominge.

New American Standard Bible
The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.

New King James Version
The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord laughs at him, For He sees his day is coming.

Legacy Standard Bible
The Lord laughs at him,For He sees that his day is coming.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Be still in the presence of the Lord , and wait patiently for him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. ⁸ Stop being angry! Turn from your rage! Do not lose your temper— it only leads to harm. ⁹ For the wicked will be destroyed, but those who trust in the Lord will possess the land. ¹⁰ Soon the wicked will disappear. Though you look for them, they will be gone. ¹¹ The lowly will possess the land and will live in peace and prosperity. ¹² The wicked plot against the godly; they snarl at them in defiance. ¹³ But the Lord just laughs, for he sees their day of judgment coming. ¹⁴ The wicked draw their swords and string their bows to kill the poor and the oppressed, to slaughter those who do right. ¹⁵ But their swords will stab their own hearts, and their bows will be broken. ¹⁶ It is better to be godly and have little than to be evil and rich.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

laugh: Psalms 2:4, Proverbs 1:26

his day: 1 Samuel 26:10, Jeremiah 50:27, Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 21:29, Daniel 5:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then 2 Samuel 16:20 - Give counsel Job 18:20 - his day Psalms 7:16 - General Psalms 37:18 - the days Psalms 59:8 - Thou Isaiah 54:15 - shall fall Jeremiah 27:7 - until Jeremiah 46:21 - the day Jeremiah 47:4 - the day Lamentations 1:21 - the day Ezekiel 30:3 - the day is Daniel 6:4 - sought Joel 1:15 - the day of Joel 3:14 - for Obadiah 1:12 - looked Mark 6:21 - when Luke 19:43 - the days

Cross-References

Genesis 22:1
Some time later, God tested Abraham's faith. "Abraham!" God called. "Yes," he replied. "Here I am."

Genesis 27:1
One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, "My son." "Yes, Father?" Esau replied.

Genesis 27:18
So Jacob took the food to his father. "My father?" he said. "Yes, my son," Isaac answered. "Who are you—Esau or Jacob?"

Genesis 37:1
So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived as a foreigner.

Genesis 37:3
Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe.

Genesis 37:4
But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn't say a kind word to him.

Genesis 37:6
"Listen to this dream," he said.

Genesis 37:17
"Yes," the man told him. "They have moved on from here, but I heard them say, ‘Let's go on to Dothan.'" So Joseph followed his brothers to Dothan and found them there.

Genesis 37:20
"Come on, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.' Then we'll see what becomes of his dreams!"

1 Samuel 3:8
So the Lord called a third time, and once more Samuel got up and went to Eli. "Here I am. Did you call me?" Then Eli realized it was the Lord who was calling the boy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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;

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord shall laugh at him - See the notes at Psalms 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 37:13. 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.