Psalms 2:1
Why are the nations plotting rebellion? The peoples devise schemes, but they're pointless.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11Though they plot evil against you, their malicious schemes will not succeed.
Psalms 46:7The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob protects us. Selah.
Psalms 74:23Don't ignore what your enemies have said, for their loud accusations against you are getting worse and worse!
Psalms 83:4They say, “Come on! Let's destroy them as a nation so the name ‘Israel’ will be completely forgotten.”
Matthew 21:38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said to each other, ‘Here's the heir! Come on! Let's kill him so we can take his inheritance!’
Luke 22:1Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, also called the Passover, was 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 →