Psalms 2:1
Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11(21-12) For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.
Psalms 46:7(46-8) The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise up against Thee which ascendeth continually.
Psalms 83:4(83-5) They 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 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 →