The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Parallel translations
- WEB The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
- BSB but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
- NKJV The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.
- NASB The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.
- NLT But the Lord just laughs, for he sees their day of judgment coming.
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Quick answer
The Lord laughs at the wicked because He sees that their day of judgment is coming. God is unthreatened by evil's plots.
Overview
While the wicked gnash their teeth, the Lord 'will laugh,' not from cruelty but from the certainty that their downfall is fixed (echoing Psalm 2:4). God sees 'his day' of reckoning approaching. This sovereign confidence assures believers that no scheme against them escapes God, who will judge all evil through Christ, to whom all judgment is given (John 5:22).
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
- Prov 1:26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- Dan 5:26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- 1 Sam 26:10David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
- Ezek 21:25And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
- Ezek 21:29Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
- Job 18:20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
- Jer 50:27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
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