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Delight Yourself in the LORD

Psalms 37:13

In 11 translations

BSB
but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
KJV
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
WEB
The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
ASV
The Lord will laugh at him; For he seeth that his day is coming.
LSV
The Lord laughs at him, || For He has seen that his day comes.
YLT
The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.
DBY
The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.
DRC36:13
But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.
GNV
But the Lord shall laugh him to scorne: for he seeth, that his day is comming.
JPS
The Lord doth laugh at him; for He seeth that his day is coming.
LXXE36:13
But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foresees that his day will come.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֲדֹנָ֥י יִשְׂחַק־ל֑וֹ כִּֽי־רָ֝אָ֗ה כִּֽי־יָבֹ֥א יוֹמֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br36:13
Ὁ δὲ Κύριος ἐκγελάσεται αὐτὸν, ὅτι προβλέτει ὅτι ἥξει ἡ ἡμέρα αὐτοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
  • Proverbs 1:26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
  • Daniel 5:26And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
  • 1 Samuel 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
  • Ezekiel 21:25And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’
  • Ezekiel 21:29while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you— to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
  • Job 18:20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
  • Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.

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  • 36:13 in some Bibles
  • 37:13 in most Bibles

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