Psalms 2
2
God's Chosen King
1 #
Acts 4.25–26
Why do the nations plan rebellion?
Why do people make their useless plots?
2Their kings revolt,
their rulers plot together against the LORD
and against the king he chose.
3“Let us free ourselves from their rule,” they say;
“let us throw off their control.”
4From his throne in heaven the Lord laughs
and mocks their feeble plans.
5Then he warns them in anger
and terrifies them with his fury.
6“On Zion,#2.6 Zion: See Zion in Word List. my sacred hill,” he says,
“I have installed my king.”
7 #
Acts 13.33; Heb 1.5; 5.5 “I will announce,” says the king, “what the LORD has declared.
He said to me: ‘You are my son;
today I have become your father.
8Ask, and I will give you all the nations;
the whole earth will be yours.
9 #
Rev 2.26–27; 12.5; 19.15 You will break them with an iron rod;
you will shatter them in pieces like a clay pot.’ ”
10Now listen to this warning, you kings;
learn this lesson, you rulers of the world:
11Serve the LORD with fear;
12tremble and bow down to him;#2.12 Probable text tremble… him; some other possible texts with trembling kiss his feet and with trembling kiss the Son and tremble and kiss the mighty one; Hebrew unclear.
or else his anger will be quickly aroused,
and you will suddenly die.
Happy are all who go to him for protection.
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Psalms 2
2
1Why do the nations rage,
And the peoples imagine a vain thing?
2The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3Let us break their bands asunder,
And cast away their cords from us.
4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:
The Lord shall have them in derision.
5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath,
And vex them in his sore displeasure:
6Yet I have set my king
Upon my holy hill of Zion.
7I will tell of the decree:
The LORD said unto me, Thou art my son;
This day have I begotten thee.
8Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance,
And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron;
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10Now therefore be wise, O ye kings:
Be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11Serve the LORD with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
12Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way,
For his wrath will soon be kindled.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
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