Psalms 2:4
He that dwells in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn, and the Lord shall mock them. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
In Context
3saying, Let us break through their bonds, and cast away their yoke from us. 1
5Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his fury. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 19:21This is the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
Psalms 37:13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth. 1
Psalms 59:8Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me. 1
Psalms 68:33For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones. 1
Psalms 123:1If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say; 1
Isaiah 40:22It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it 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 →