Psalms 2
1 Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
2 Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,
3 'Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
4 He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
5 Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them:
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
6 'And I — I have anointed My King, Upon Zion — My holy hill.'
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
7 I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou [art], I to-day have brought thee forth.
I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
8 Ask of Me and I give nations — thy inheritance, And thy possession — the ends of earth.
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10 And now, O kings, act wisely, Be instructed, O judges of earth,
Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve ye Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!
Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
