Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 37:13
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
13. Doth laugh (Psa 2:4 note) for he hath seen. The punishment of the wicked has been foreseen and foreordained from the first.
his day ] The appointed day of retribution and ruin. Cp. Psa 137:7; Oba 1:12 ; 1Sa 26:10; Job 18:20.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The Lord shall laugh at him – See the notes at Psa 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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Shall laugh at him, i.e. shall despise and deride all their hopes and endeavours against the good, as most vain and foolish.
His day; either,
1. Gods day, which is a usual phrase, as Isa 2:12; 13:9. Or,
2. His own day, as 1Sa 26:10; Eze 21:25,29. Both signify the same thing, the day appointed by God for his punishment or destruction, as Isa 9:4; Jer 50:27.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
13. (Compare Ps2:4).
seethknows certainly.
his dayof punishment,long delayed, shall yet come (Heb10:37).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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 Ps 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(13) Shall laugh.Comp. Psa. 2:4, Note; his day, i.e., the day of trouble or retribution for the wicked, as we see from Psa. 137:7; Job. 18:20, etc.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
13. The Lord shall laugh See on Psa 2:4.
His day is coming The day which God has appointed for his just retribution.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 37:13. That his day is coming i.e. The day of his punishment: so Jer 5:31. For thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. See Psa 137:7. Job 18:20. Isa 9:4.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Psa 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Ver. 13. The Lord will laugh at him ] See Psa 2:4 . The righteous also shall have a time to laugh at him, Psa 52:6 , and meanwhile comforteth himself with this, that God laughed at him, and that therefore himself had no great cause to cry, since ridendo irritos reddit, by laughing at them he blasted all their designs, and that with disgrace; men love not to be laughed at.
For he seeth that his day is coming
Dicetur reprobis, Ite, Venite probis.
He will say to the reprobate, go, and come to the righteous.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
The LORD*. Hebrew. Jehovah. Altered by the Sopherim to Adonai. App-32.
laugh. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
day = judgment. “Day” put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the judgment then to be executed.
is coming. So some codices, with Aram, and Syriac Hebrew text = will come.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
laugh: Psa 2:4, Pro 1:26
his day: 1Sa 26:10, Jer 50:27, Eze 21:25, Eze 21:29, Dan 5:26
Reciprocal: Gen 27:41 – then 2Sa 16:20 – Give counsel Job 18:20 – his day Psa 7:16 – General Psa 37:18 – the days Psa 59:8 – Thou Isa 54:15 – shall fall Jer 27:7 – until Jer 46:21 – the day Jer 47:4 – the day Lam 1:21 – the day Eze 30:3 – the day is Dan 6:4 – sought Joe 1:15 – the day of Joe 3:14 – for Oba 1:12 – looked Mar 6:21 – when Luk 19:43 – the days