1 W hy have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 S tation themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3 ` Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4 H e who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

5 T hen doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them:

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6 ` And I -- I have anointed My King, Upon Zion -- My holy hill.'

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7 I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou, I to-day have brought thee forth.

I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8 A sk of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

9 T hou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

10 A nd now, O kings, act wisely, Be instructed, O judges of earth,

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

11 S erve ye Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling.

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

12 K iss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

Kiss 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.