Psalms 2

God's Chosen King

¹Why do the nations plan rebellion?[#Acts 4.25–26]

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, my sacred hill,” he says,[#2.6 : See Zion in Word List.]

“I have installed my king.”

⁷“I will announce,” says the king, “what the LORD has declared.[#Acts 13.33; Heb 1.5; 5.5]

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.

⁹You will break them with an iron rod;[#Rev 2.26–27; 12.5; 19.15]

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 … ; 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.