Psalms 2:10
Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
In Context
9You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Cross References
Psalms 72:10The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Isaiah 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”
Isaiah 60:3Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Jeremiah 6:8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
Zechariah 14:17It will be that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 2:8-10
The Triumphs of Messiah. 7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. We have heard what the kings of the earth have to say against Christ's kingdom, and have heard it gainsaid by him that sits in heaven; let us now hear what the… Read the whole commentary →