Psalms 2
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Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
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Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:
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3
'Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'
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He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.
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Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them:
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'And I — I have anointed My King, Upon Zion — My holy hill.'
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I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou [art], I to-day have brought thee forth.
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Ask of Me and I give nations — thy inheritance, And thy possession — the ends of earth.
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Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
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And now, O kings, act wisely, Be instructed, O judges of earth,
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Serve ye Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
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Kiss 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!
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