Psalms 2:10
And now, O kings, understand. Receive instruction, you who judge the earth.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
In Context
9You will rule them with an iron rod, and you will shatter them like a potter’s vessel.
11Serve the Lord in fear, and exult in him with trembling.
Cross References
Psalms 72:10Therefore, my people will be converted here, and fullness of days will be found in them.
Isaiah 49:23And kings will be your caretakers, and queens will be your nursemaids. They will reverence you with their face to the ground, and they will lick the dust at your feet. And you will know that I am the Lord. For those who hope in him will not be confounded.
Isaiah 60:3And the nations will walk in your light, and the kings will walk by the splendor of your rising.
Jeremiah 6:8O Jerusalem, accept instruction, lest perhaps my soul may withdraw from you; lest perhaps I may set you in a desert, in an uninhabitable land.”
Zechariah 14:17And this shall be: whoever will not go up, from the families of the earth to Jerusalem, so as to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no showers upon them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 2:8-10
The Triumphs of Messiah. 7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and 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. We have heard what the kings of the earth have to say against Christ's kingdom, and have heard it gainsaid by him that sits in heaven; let us now hear what the… Read the whole commentary →