"The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth" (Ps 37:12). "But the Lord shall laugh at him" (Ps 37:13). At whom? Surely at the sinner, "gnashing at" the other "with his teeth." But why shall the Lord laugh at him? "For He foresees his day will come." He seems indeed full of wrath; while ignorant of the morrow that is in store for him, he is threatening the just. But the Lord beholds and "foresees his day." What day? That in which "He will render to every man according to his works." For he is "treasuring up unto himself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God" (Rom 2:5-6).
But it is the Lord that foresees it; you do not foresee it. It has been revealed to you by Him who foresees it. You did not know of the "day of the unrighteous," in which he is to suffer punishment. But He who knows it has revealed it to you. It is a main part of knowledge to join yourself to Him who has knowledge. He has the eyes of knowledge: have, therefore, the eyes of a believing mind. That which God "sees," be willing to believe. For the day of the unjust, which God foresees, will come. What day is that? The day for all vengeance! For it is necessary that vengeance should be taken upon the ungodly, that vengeance be taken upon the unjust, whether he turn, or whether he turn not. For if he shall turn from his ways, that very thing, that his "injustice is come to an end," is the infliction of vengeance ...