Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. LORD will have them in derision.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
In Context
3Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.
5Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his great displeasure.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:21This is the word that LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised thee and laughed thee to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.
Psalms 37:13LORD will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
Psalms 59:8But thou, O LORD, will laugh at them. Thou will have all the nations in derision.
Psalms 68:33to him who rides upon the heaven of heavens, which are of old. Lo, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
Psalms 123:1To thee do I lift up my eyes, O thou who sit in the heavens.
Isaiah 40:22[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 2:2-7
The Enemies of Messiah. 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord , and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. We have… Read the whole commentary →