Psalms 37:13

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

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  • Ps 2:4 : 4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
  • Prov 1:26 : 26 I too will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 David also said, "As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
  • Dan 5:26 : 26 This is the interpretation of the message: Mene means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.
  • Job 18:20 : 20 Those who come after are appalled at his fate, and those before are seized with horror.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Slaughter all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
  • Ezek 21:25 : 25 Mark out a road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and against Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.
  • Ezek 21:29 : 29 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have brought your guilt to remembrance by exposing your transgressions for all to see—your sins revealed in all your actions—because you have been brought to mind, you will be captured.

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  • Ps 52:6-7
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    6You love all words that destroy, O deceitful tongue.

    7But God will tear you down forever; He will snatch and uproot you from your tent and dislodge you from the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 2:4-5
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    4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

    5Then He speaks to them in His anger and terrifies them in His wrath:

  • 12The wicked person plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.

  • 8See how they spew out insults; their lips are sharp like swords, and they say, 'Who can hear us?'

  • 26I too will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

  • 19The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them.

  • 14The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

  • 7But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

  • 21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

  • 10The wicked will see it and be angry; they will gnash their teeth and melt away. The desires of the wicked will perish.

  • 23When a scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

  • Ps 37:32-34
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    32The wicked person lies in wait for the righteous and seeks to kill him.

    33The LORD will not leave him in the hands of the wicked or condemn him when he is judged.

    34Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.

  • 4"I have become a laughingstock to my friends, I who called on God and He answered me, a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!"

  • 10They mock kings, and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to capture it.

  • Job 27:22-23
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    22It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

    23It claps its hands at him and hisses at him as he is driven away from his place.

  • 42The upright see this and rejoice, but all wickedness shuts its mouth.

  • 5Whoever mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

  • 27The heavens will expose his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

  • 10In a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

  • 20Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink from the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 18Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

  • 20For the ruthless will vanish, the scoffer will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut off.

  • 5His ways prosper at all times; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he sneers at them.

  • 9They are joined to one another; they stick together and cannot be separated.

  • 13Why does the wicked spurn God? He says in his heart, 'You will not call me to account.'

  • 6For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools—this too is meaningless.

  • 22It laughs at fear, unshaken and undeterred by the sword.

  • 13Even in laughter, the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief.

  • 11He says in his heart, 'God has forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see it.'

  • Ps 37:17-18
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    17For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD supports the righteous.

    18The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.

  • 17The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word that he decreed long ago. He has overthrown without pity; he has let the enemy gloat over you and exalt the horn of your adversaries.

  • 21They open their mouths wide against me and say, 'Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it!'

  • 2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • 21Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.

  • 6You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears in abundance.

  • 22this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head as you flee.

  • 7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out wicked schemes.

  • 2Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.

  • 20Those who come after are appalled at his fate, and those before are seized with horror.

  • 7The Lord is on my side as my helper; I will look in triumph on those who hate me.

  • 7They say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."

  • 9See, the day of the LORD is coming—a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and to destroy the sinners within it.

  • 9Would it be well when He examines you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive a mortal?