Psalms · 12 verses
Psalms 2
Every verse links to the people and places named in it, and to the passages readers connect it with.
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The heavenly throne meets a grand conspiracy with laughter, and the plotters are left facing an iron scepter, pottery, and the peculiar instruction to kiss the Son.
A conspiracy beneath a laughing thronevv. 1–6
The nations rage, the peoples plot, and kings and rulers gather against the LORD and His Anointed One. Their proposed escape is wonderfully physical: chains broken, cords cast away. From heaven, however, the response is laughter and taunting, followed by anger and terror; then comes the announcement that the King is installed on Zion, upon the holy mountain.
The decree of the Sonvv. 7–9
The speaker now proclaims the LORD’s decree: the King is called Son, and the day is named as the day of fatherhood. The inheritance stretches from the nations to the ends of the earth, while the royal instrument is an iron scepter and the promised result is pottery shattered beyond ceremony.
Fear, rejoicing, and the kissvv. 10–12
The kings and judges are told to become wise and accept admonition. Service to the LORD is joined to fear, and rejoicing is made to tremble alongside it. The final command is strikingly precise: kiss the Son, lest anger and sudden wrath overtake rebellion; the psalm closes by naming refuge as blessed.
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Ps 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
Ps 2:3“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
Ps 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
Ps 2:5Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury:
Ps 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
Ps 2:7I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
Ps 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Ps 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
Ps 2:10Therefore be wise, O kings; be admonished, O judges of the earth.
Ps 2:11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Ps 2:12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 160 passages were voted onto 12 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 7Hebrews 5:5So also Christ did not take upon Himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but He was called by the One who said to Him: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.”
- 7Acts 13:33He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’
- 7Hebrews 1:5–6For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?
- 7Matthew 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
- 4Psalms 37:13but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
- 1Acts 4:25–26You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- 4Psalms 59:8But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
- 7Matthew 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
- 12Psalms 40:4Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
- 7Psalms 89:27I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- 2Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
- 12John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
- 11Philippians 2:12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
- 8Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- 1Revelation 17:14They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”
- 7Romans 1:4and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
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