Psalms 2

Reading Psalms chapter 2 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.

Verses 1–10

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.'

10 And now, O kings, act wisely, Be instructed, O judges of earth,

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