Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things (LXX/NT)?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Psalms 46:7LORD of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voice of thine adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against thee ascends continually.
Psalms 83:4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Matthew 21:38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and possess his inheritance.
Luke 22:1Now the feast of unleavened bread was coming near, which is called Passover.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 2:1
As the foregoing psalm was moral, and showed us our duty, so this is evangelical, and shows us our Saviour. Under the type of David's kingdom (which was of divine appointment, met with much opposition, but prevailed at last) the kingdom of the Messiah, the Son of David, is prophesied of, which is the primary intention and scope of the psalm; and I think there is less in it of the type, and more of the anti-type, than in any of the gospel psalms, for there is nothing in it but what is applicable to Christ, but some… Read the whole commentary →