Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Majority Standard Bible
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 intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Psalms 46:7The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalms 74:23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Matthew 21:38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
Luke 22:1Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, 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 →