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Psalms Chapter 2 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 2:4

He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.
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BBE Psalms 2:4

Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
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DARBY Psalms 2:4

He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.
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KJV Psalms 2:4

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
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WBT Psalms 2:4

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
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WEB Psalms 2:4

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
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YLT Psalms 2:4

He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. God "laughs" at the vain and futile efforts of man to escape from the control of his laws and throw off his dominion (comp. Psalm 37:13; Psalm 59:8). It is impossible that these efforts should succeed. Men must obey God willingly, or else unwillingly. The Lord (Adonay in the ordinary Hebrew text, but a large number of manuscripts have Jehovah) shall have them in derision. "Laughter" and "derision" are, of course, anthropo-morphisms. It is meant that God views with contempt and scorn man's weak attempts at rebellion.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) He that sitteth.--Here the psalm, with a sublimity truly Hebrew, turns from the wild confusion on earth to the spectacle of God looking down with mingled scorn and wrath on the fruitless attempts of the heathen against His chosen people.Laugh.--We speak of the "irony of events "; the Hebrew ascribes irony to God, who controls events.