Psalms 2

¹Why did the Gentiles rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

²The kings of the earth stood up, and the Princes came together in one against our Lord, and against his Christ.

³Let us break their bonds a-sunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.

⁴He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh at them: and our Lord shall scorn them.

⁵Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, & in his fury he shall trouble them.

⁶But I am appointed king by him over Sion his holy hill, preaching his precept.

⁷The Lord said to me: Thou art my Son, I this day have begotten thee.

⁸Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles, for thine inheritance, and thy possession the ends of the earth.

⁹Thou shalt rule them in a rod of iron, and as a potter's vessel thou shalt break them in pieces.

¹⁰And now ye kings understand: take instruction you that judge the earth.

¹¹Serve our Lord in fear: and rejoice to him with trembling.

¹²Apprehend discipline lest sometime our Lord be wrath, and you perish out of the just way.

¹³when his wrath shall burn in short time, blessed are all that trust in him.