Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
World English Bible Classic
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 intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Psalms 46:7The LORD of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 74:23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Psalms 83:4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Matthew 21:38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
Luke 22:1Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is 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 →