Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

LORD will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord laughs at him,
For He sees his day is coming.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The Lord laughs at him
because He sees that his day is coming.

International Standard Version

But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!

American Standard Version

The Lord will laugh at him; For he seeth that his day is coming.

Amplified


The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous],
For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah shall laugh at him: for he saw that his day will come.

King James 2000

The Lord shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah laughs at him; for He sees that his day is coming.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But the LORD laugheth him to scorn, for he seeth that his day is coming.

NET Bible

The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.

New Heart English Bible

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

The Emphasized Bible

My Lord, shall laugh at him, for he seeth, that his day, will come.

Webster

The Lord will laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

World English Bible

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Youngs Literal Translation

The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 37:13

Context Readings

Instruction In Wisdom

12 The wicked man plots against the righteous man, and gnashes upon him with his teeth. 13 LORD will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill such as are upright in the way.


Cross References

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.

1 Samuel 26:10

And David said, As LORD lives, LORD will smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.

Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,

Job 18:20

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill all her bullocks. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.

Ezekiel 21:25

And thou, O deadly wounded wicked man, the ruler of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

Ezekiel 21:29

while they see for thee FALSE visions, while they divine lies to thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Daniel 5:26

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

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