Chapter 2

  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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  '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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