Psalms 2:1
Why have the Gentiles been seething, and why have the people been pondering nonsense?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God.
Psalms 46:7Sing psalms to our God, sing psalms. Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.
Psalms 83:4For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
Matthew 21:38But the farmers, seeing the son, said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and then we will have his inheritance.’
Luke 22:1Now the days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, were approaching.
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 →