Psalms 2:4

laugh. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

The LORD*. Primitive text was Jehovah. Altered by the Sopherim to Adonai. See App-32.

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⁴ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

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