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Psalms 2
After the quiet of Psalm 1, this one opens loud: nations rage, kings and rulers conspire to throw off the LORD and his Anointed (vv.1-3). The scene then cuts to heaven, where the one enthroned simply laughs (v.4). Read it as a coronation drama in four voices — the rebels, God, the king, and the closing summons.
- 1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- 2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,
- 3
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
- 4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
- 5
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
- 6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- 7
I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
- 8
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
- 9
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
- 10
Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
- 11
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
- 12
Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
Four speakers, one decree
The psalm hands the microphone around. Rebels speak in v.3; God answers in v.6, having set his king on Zion; the king recites the decree, "You are my son" (v.7), with the nations promised as inheritance. The last stanza turns to the kings themselves: serve with fear, give homage to the Son. Power is the whole subject, and where it actually sits is the point.
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