Psalms 2:1
Why have nations assembled tumultuously? And peoples meditate vanity?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they stretched out evil against You, || They devised a wicked scheme, they do not prevail,
Psalms 46:7YHWH of Hosts [is] with us, || The God of Jacob [is] a tower for us. Selah.
Psalms 74:23Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries, || The noise of Your withstanders is going up continually!
Psalms 83:4They have said, “Come, and we cut them off from [being] a nation, || And the name of Israel is not remembered anymore.”
Matthew 21:38and the farmers having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
Luke 22:1And the Celebration of the Unleavened [Bread] was coming near, that is called Passover,
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 →