The Laughter of God
Psalm 2:4-5
He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.


They scoff at us. God laughs at them. Severe Cato thought that laughter did not become the gravity of Roman consuls, and is it attributed to the majesty of heaven...Pharaoh imagined that by drowning the Israelite males he had found a way to root their name from the earth, but when at the same time his own daughter in his own court gave princely education to Moses, their deliverer, did not God laugh? Is Dagon put up in his place again? God's smile shall take off his head and his hands and leave him neither wit to guide nor power to subsist He permitted His temple to be sacked and rifled, the holy vessels to be profaned and caroused in; but did not God's smile make Belshazzar to tremble? Oh, what are His frowns if His smiles be so terrible?

(Thomas Adams.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

WEB: He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.




Opposition to Messiah in Vain
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