Psalms 2:1
Why doe the heathen rage, and the people murmure in vaine?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.
Psalms 46:7The Lord of hostes is with vs: the God of Iaakob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.
Psalms 83:4They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.
Matthew 21:38But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance.
Luke 22:1Now the feast of vnleauened bread drewe neere, which is called the Passeouer.
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 →