Psalm 2:9
New International Version
You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

New Living Translation
You will break them with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots.’”

English Standard Version
You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Berean Standard Bible
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

King James Bible
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

New King James Version
You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
‘You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

NASB 1995
‘You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

NASB 1977
‘Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, Thou shalt shatter them like earthenware.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like a potter’s vessel.’”

Amplified Bible
‘You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall shatter them [in pieces] like earthenware.’”

Christian Standard Bible
You will break them with an iron scepter; you will shatter them like pottery.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will break them with a rod of iron; You will shatter them like pottery.”

American Standard Version
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You shall shepherd them with a scepter of iron and like a potter's vessels you will shatter them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.

Contemporary English Version
You will smash them with an iron rod and shatter them like dishes of clay."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will break them with an iron scepter. You will smash them to pieces like pottery."

Good News Translation
You will break them with an iron rod; you will shatter them in pieces like a clay pot.'"

International Standard Version
You will break them with an iron rod, you will shatter them like pottery."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'

Literal Standard Version
You rule them with a scepter of iron, | You crush them as a vessel of a potter.”

Majority Standard Bible
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

New American Bible
With an iron rod you will shepherd them, like a potter’s vessel you will shatter them.”

NET Bible
You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter's jar!'"

New Revised Standard Version
You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

New Heart English Bible
You shall rule them with an iron scepter. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

World English Bible
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Young's Literal Translation
Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

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Context
The Triumphant Messiah
8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession. 9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.” 10Therefore be wise, O kings; be admonished, O judges of the earth.…

Cross References
Revelation 2:26
And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

Revelation 2:27
He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery--just as I have received authority from My Father.

Revelation 12:5
And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

Revelation 19:15
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

Numbers 24:8
God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.

1 Samuel 2:10
Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed."

Psalm 28:5
Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Psalm 21:8,9
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee…

Psalm 89:23
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

Psalm 110:5,6
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath…

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(9) Thou shalt break.--The LXX. translated, "thou shalt pasture them," understanding by the rod (Heb., shevet), as in Leviticus 27:32, a shepherd's crook. (Comp. Ezekiel 20:37; Micah 7:14.) Elsewhere the rod is a sceptre (Psalm 125:3); in Proverbs 22:15 it is a rod of correction. The use to be made of it--to dash the nations in pieces, as one breaks a potter's vessel--points to the latter of these significations here.

"Then shalt thou bring full low . . .

Verse 9. - Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. It is said that these words, and those of the next clause, "cannot describe the mild rule of Christ" (Rosenmuller, Do Wette, Hupfeld, etc.). But the objectors forget that there is a severe, as well as a mild, side to the dealings of God with his human creatures. St. Paul notes in the same verse both the "severity" and the "goodness" of God (Romans 11:22). Christ, though "the Prince of Peace," "came to send a sword upon the earth" (Matthew 10:34). As the appointed Judge of men, he takes vengeance on the wicked, while he rewards the righteous (Luke 3:17; Matthew 25:46). Nay, St. John, in the Apocalypse, declares that "out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations. and "ye shall rule them with a rod of iron" (Revelation 19:15; comp. 2:27; 12:5). So, with respect to the other clause of the verse - Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel - it is to be noted that there is a similar threat made by the Lord of hosts against Jerusalem in the Book of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 19:11), and that under the new covenant the same is threatened in the Revelation (Revelation 2:27). In truth, both covenants are alike in denouncing the extreme of God's wrath on impenitent sinners, such as those here spoken of.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You will break them
תְּ֭רֹעֵם (tə·rō·‘êm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad

an iron
בַּרְזֶ֑ל (bar·zel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1270: Iron, an iron implement

scepter;
בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט (bə·šê·ḇeṭ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

You {will} shatter them
תְּנַפְּצֵֽם׃ (tə·nap·pə·ṣêm)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5310: To dash to pieces, scatter

like pottery.”
יוֹצֵ֣ר (yō·w·ṣêr)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3335: To mould into a, form, as a, potter, to determine


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