1. Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?
2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,
3. let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
4. He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5. Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath and trouble them in his sore displeasure.
6. Yet I have set my king upon Zion, the mountain of my holiness.
7. I will declare the decree; the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day I have begotten thee.
8. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the Gentiles for thine inheritance and unto the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10. Understand now therefore, O ye kings: receive chastening, ye judges of the earth.