Psalms 2:1-9 ▼

1 Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

2 Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

3 'Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

4 He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

5 Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them:

6 'And I -- I have anointed My King, Upon Zion -- My holy hill.'

7 I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

8 Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.

9 Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'