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4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
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The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We have here a very great struggle about the kingdom of Christ, hell and heaven contesting it; the seat of the war is this earth, where Satan has long had a usurped kingdom and exercised dominion to such a degree that he has been called the prince of the power of the very air we breathe in and the god of the world we live in. He knows very well that, as the Messiah’s kingdom rises and gets ground,…
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