Psalms 2:1
Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.
Psalms 46:7Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.
Psalms 83:4They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
Matthew 21:38But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.
Luke 22:1Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.
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 →