Psalms 2:1
Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.
Psalms 46:7Yahweh of hosts, is with us, A high tower for us, is the God of Jacob. [Selah.]
Psalms 74:23Do not forget the voice of thine adversaries, The noise of thine assailants, ascending continually.
Psalms 83:4They have said—Come, and let us wipe them out from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.
Matthew 21:38But, the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves,—This, is, the heir: Come on! Let us slay him, and have his inheritance.
Luke 22:1And the feast of the unleavened bread, which is called a Passover, was drawing 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 →