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1 ✡ Therefore did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?
2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves together, against the Lord, and against his Christ;
3 saying, Let us break through their bonds, and cast away their yoke from us.
4 He that dwells in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn, and the Lord shall mock them.
5 Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his fury.
6 But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain,
7 declaring the ordinance of the Lord: the Lord said to me, ✡ You are my Son, today have I begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall * rule them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.
10 Now therefore understand, you⌃ kings: be instructed, all you⌃ that judge the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling.
12 † Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you⌃ should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.
✡ 2:1 Acts 4:25 ✡ 2:7 Acts 13:33; Heb 1:5 * 2:9 Gr. tend them as a shepherd. Rev. 2:27. † 2:12 Note. - This rendering or a similar one the Jews maintain.