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Why do they waste their time with futile plans?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the LORD and against his anointed one.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Let us break their chains,” they cry, “and free ourselves from slavery to God.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the one who rules in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then in anger he rebukes them, terrifying them with his fierce fury.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The king proclaims the LORD’s decree: “The LORD said to me, ‘You are my son. Today I have become your Father.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You will break them with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots.’”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now then, you kings, act wisely! Be warned, you rulers of the earth!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Serve the LORD with reverent fear, and rejoice with trembling.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Submit to God’s royal son, or he will become angry, and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities— for his anger flares up in an instant. But what joy for all who take refuge in him!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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