Psalms 2:1-9 ▼

1 Why are the nations in an uproar, and their people involved in a vain plot?

2 As the kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against the LORD and his anointed one, they say,

3 |Let us tear off their shackles from us, and cast off their chains.|

4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

5 In his anger he rebukes them, and in his wrath he terrifies them:

6 |I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain.|

7 Let me announce the decree of the LORD that he told me: |You are my son, today I have become your father.

8 Ask of me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your possession.

9 You will break them with an iron rod, you will shatter them like pottery.|