Psalms 2:1

The psalm opens by asking why the nations rage and scheme against God in futility. Human rebellion against the Lord is ultimately empty and doomed.

Cross-references · 17

• Acts 4:25–26who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Rev 17:14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
• Ps 46:6The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
• Ps 21:11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
• Ps 83:4–8“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
• Acts 17:5–6But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
• Matt 21:38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’
• Luke 22:22–23The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”
• Ps 18:42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
• Isa 8:9Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
• Luke 18:32For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
• Acts 5:33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
• Acts 19:28–32When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
• Luke 22:1–2Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
• John 11:49–50But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
• Acts 16:22The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
• Luke 22:5They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

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