Psalms 2

Treated in 8 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. 3
  • 2:3 Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us. 2
  • 2:1 Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing? 1
  • 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying], 1
  • 2:6 Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion. 1
  • 2:8 Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 1
  • 2:12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in him. 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The tests of love to God cites Psa. ii. 3

    …hey hate His laws. “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us” (Psa. ii. 3). God’s precepts are compared to cords, they bind men to their good behaviour; but the wi…

  2. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The First Stage cites Psalm 2:12

    …not aside again, lest thou “perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.” Psalm 2:12.

  3. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Of Evil Angels cites Ps. 2:6–7

    …hem. Some have, not improbably, supposed, that when God published “the decree” (mentioned Ps. 2:6–7) concerning the kingdom of his only-begotten Son to be over all creatures, these first-bo…

  4. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The best things work for good to the godly cites Psalm ii. 9

    …de, and breaks the confidence of adversaries. “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron” (Psalm ii. 9). There is rage in the enemy, malice in the devil, but power in God. How easily can He ro…

  5. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Reproof of such as sin against this merciful disposition in Christ. Of quenching the Spirit cites Psalm ii. 9

    … not come under his sceptre of mercy, shall be crushed in pieces by his sceptre of power, Psalm ii. 9. Though he will graciously tender and maintain the least spark of true grace, yet where h…

  6. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Christ's government shall be openly victorious cites Psalm ii. 9

    …so will he dash all those pieces of earth which rise up against him as a potter’s vessel, Psalm ii. 9. Was there ever any fierce against God and prospered? Job ix. 4; No, doubtless the rage o…

  7. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Be encouraged to go on cheerfully, with confidence cites Psalm ii. 8

    …xi. 25, but Christ, that hath the utmost parts of the earth given him for his possession, Psalm ii. 8, will gather all the sheep is Father hath given him into one fold, that there may be one …

  8. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    August cites Psa 2:1-3

    … the New Testament (Act 13:33; Heb 1:5). There are four strophes of three verses each. In Psa 2:1-3, the nations are depicted as assembling and planning revolt. A widespread conspiracy has …