Psalms 2 WBT
Summary: A royal enthronement psalm, Psalm 2 pictures the nations and their kings conspiring in vain against "the LORD and his Anointed" (v. 2), only to be met with divine laughter and a decree installing God's king on Zion. The LORD declares to this king, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you" (v. 7), language later read by Jewish and Christian tradition as pointing beyond any single Davidic ruler to a messianic hope. The psalm closes with a warning to earth's rulers to submit and "kiss the Son" (v. 12) lest they perish, and a blessing on those who take refuge in him.
1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],
3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and trouble them in his sore displeasure.
6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said to me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the heathen [for] thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.
9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him.
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