Psalms 2:3
“Let us draw off Their cords, || And cast Their thick bands from us.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
In Context
4He who is sitting in the heavens laughs, || The Lord mocks at them.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:5I go to the great, and I speak with them, || For they have known the way of YHWH, || The judgment of their God.” Surely they have broken the yoke together, || They have drawn away the bands.
Luke 19:27but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring here and slay before me.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 2:2-7
The Enemies of Messiah. 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord , and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. We have… Read the whole commentary →