Psalms 37:13

Douay-Rheims Bible

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

Parallel Translations

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.

English Standard Version
but the Lord laughs at the wicked, 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Revised Standard Version
but the LORD laughs at the wicked, 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.

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

Contextual Overview

⁷ (36-7) Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things. ⁸ (36-8) Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil. ⁹ (36-9) For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land. ¹⁰ (36-10) For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it. ¹¹ (36-11) But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace. ¹² (36-12) The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. ¹³ (36-13) But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come. ¹⁴ (36-14) The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart. ¹⁵ (36-15) Let their sword enter into their own hearts, and let their bow be broken. ¹⁶ (36-16) Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the wicked.

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
After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

Genesis 27:1
Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

Genesis 27:18
Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?

Genesis 37:1
And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned.

Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Genesis 37:4
And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated hem, and could not speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 37:6
And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.

Genesis 37:17
And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

Genesis 37:20
Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

1 Samuel 3:8
And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose up and went to Heli,

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.