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Psalm 2
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
Outline: the section headings
- Opening…
Headings from the Berean Standard Bible.
The full introduction to Psalms opens beside chapter 1, in the Tyndale commentary.
From the Tyndale Open Study Notes, Tyndale House Publishers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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2The
3Let us
4He that
5Then shall he
6Yet have I
7I will
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9Thou shalt
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Footnotes
The Triumphant Messiah
1Why do the nations ragefootnote aand the peoples plot in vain? 2The kings of the earth take their standand the rulers gather together,against the LORDand against His Anointed One:footnote b 3“Let us break Their chainsand cast away Their cords.”
4The One enthroned in heaven laughs;the Lord taunts them. 5Then He rebukes them in His anger,and terrifies them in His fury: 6“I have installed My King on Zion,upon My holy mountain.”
7I will proclaim the decreespoken to Me by the LORD:“You are My Son;today I have become Your Father.footnote c 8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance,the ends of the earth Your possession. 9You will break themfootnote dwith an iron scepter;You will shatter them like pottery.footnote e”
10Therefore be wise, O kings;be admonished, O judges of the earth. 11Serve the LORD with fear,and rejoice with trembling. 12Kiss the Son, lest He be angryand you perish in your rebellion,when His wrath ignites in an instant.Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
Footnotes
- a 2:1 Or noisily assemble; see Revelation 11:18.
- b 2:2 Cited in Acts 4:25–26
- c 2:7 Literally today I have begotten You; cited in Acts 13:33, Hebrews 1:5, and Hebrews 5:5
- d 2:9 LXX You will rule them or You will shepherd them
- e 2:9 Cited in Revelation 2:27; see also Revelation 12:5 and Revelation 19:15.
Opening the translation…
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