Psalms 2:3
They shout, “We should free ourselves from their control [MET]; we should not let them rule over us any longer!”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
In Context
4But Yahweh, the one who sits on his throne in heaven, laughs at them; he ridicules those rulers.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:5So, I will go and talk to their leaders, because they surely know how God wants them to conduct their lives.” But they also have stopped obeying Yahweh [MET], and they will not allow him to lead them.
Luke 19:27Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to rule over them, bring them here and execute them while I am watching!’”
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 →