Psalms 2:1
Why this turmoil of nations, this futile plotting of peoples,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11When they scheme against you and hatch evil plots – they will fail.
Psalms 46:7On our side is the Lord of hosts, our sure defence is the God of Jacob.
Psalms 74:23Do not forget the uproar of your enemies, the din of your foes that ascends evermore.
Psalms 83:4“Come, let us wipe them out as a nation, so Israel’s name will be mentioned no more.”
Matthew 21:38But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other ‘Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.’
Luke 22:1The feast of the unleavened bread, known as the Passover, was near.
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 →