Psalms 59:8
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us ?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
In Context
7They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
9But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:15And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.
Psalms 57:5and he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 1:26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:2-8
Prayer for Deliverance. 1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord . 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. 5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked… Read the whole commentary →