Psalms 2:1
Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
Young's Literal Translation
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 stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
Psalms 46:7Jehovah of Hosts [is] with us, A tower for us [is] the God of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, The noise of Thy withstanders is going up continually!
Psalms 83:4They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'
Matthew 21:38and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
Luke 22:1And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,
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 →