“The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.”
The psalmist declares 'The LORD laughs at the wicked, for he sees that their day is coming.' The image of God laughing suggests divine derision and the perspective that the wicked's threats are ultimately insignificant. The affirmation that God sees that 'their day is coming' suggests that God perceives the approaching judgment of the wicked. This verse establishes that God's perspective transcends the temporal moment and perceives the ultimate fate of the wicked.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:13
On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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