Psalms 37:13

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs. ⁸ Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin. ⁹ For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage. ¹⁰ For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there. ¹¹ But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure. ¹² The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him. ¹³ He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming. ¹⁴ The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways. ¹⁵ But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken. ¹⁶ The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

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
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

Genesis 27:1
Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.

Genesis 27:18
And he came to his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I: who are you, my son?

Genesis 37:1
Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37:3
Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

Genesis 37:4
And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

Genesis 37:6
And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

Genesis 37:17
And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.

Genesis 37:20
Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

1 Samuel 3:8
And for the third time the Lord said Samuel's name. And he got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. Then it was clear to Eli that the voice which had said the child's name was the Lord's.

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.