Psalm 2

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹ ¶ Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,

³ let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.

⁴ He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

⁵ Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath and trouble them in his sore displeasure.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon Zion, the mountain of my holiness.

⁷ ¶ I will declare the decree; the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day I have begotten thee.

⁸ Ask of me, and I shall give thee the Gentiles for thine inheritance and unto the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

⁹ Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

¹⁰ ¶ Understand now therefore, O ye kings: receive chastening, ye judges of the earth.

¹¹ Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

¹² Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled in a little while. Blessed are all those that put their trust in him.