Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The Lord
King James Version
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Holman Bible
the Lord ridicules them.
International Standard Version
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
A Conservative Version
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.
American Standard Version
He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.
Amplified
He who sits [enthroned] in the heavens laughs [at their rebellion];
The [Sovereign]
Bible in Basic English
Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
Darby Translation
He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.
Julia Smith Translation
He dwelling in the heavens shall laugh: Jehovah shall deride to them.
King James 2000
He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He who] sits [enthroned] in the heavens laughs. The Lord derides them.
Modern King James verseion
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; Jehovah shall mock at them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.
NET Bible
The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.
New Heart English Bible
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
The Emphasized Bible
He that sitteth in the heavens, will laugh, - My Lord, will mock at them:
Webster
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
World English Bible
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
Youngs Literal Translation
He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.
Themes
Anthropomorphisms » Miscellaneous acts and states of mind attributed to » Laughing
Counsel » Those that take counsel together against the lord
Derision » The wicked held in, by God
Interlinear
Yashab
Sachaq
References
American
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Messiah's Reign
3
let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
4
The Lord
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 37:13
The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
Psalm 59:8
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the Gentiles in derision.
Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;
Psalm 11:4
The LORD is in the temple of his holiness, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.
Isaiah 40:22
He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: Has he despised thee? Has he laughed thee to scorn, O virgin daughter of Zion? He has moved his head behind thy back, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Psalm 53:5
They were there in great fear where no fear was; for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against thee: thou hast put them to shame because God has despised them.
Psalm 68:33
To him that rides upon the heavens of the heavens which were of old; behold, he shall send forth his voice, his mighty voice.
Psalm 115:3
But our God is in the heavens; he has made whatever he has desired.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is The Holy One; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live.
Isaiah 66:1
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where shall remain this house that ye built unto me? and where shall remain this place of my rest?