2nd Day Morning - Psalm 2

Psalm 2   Quare fremuerunt gentes?

 

1            Why are the nations in an uproar? *

        Why do the peoples mutter empty threats?

 

2            Why do the kings of the earth rise up in revolt,

and the princes plot together, *

        against the Lord and against his Anointed?

 

3             “Let us break their yoke,” they say; *

        “let us cast off their bonds from us.”

 

4            He whose throne is in heaven is laughing; *

        the Lord has them in derision.

 

5            Then he speaks to them in his wrath, *

        and his rage fills them with terror.

 

6             “I myself have set my king *

        upon my holy hill of Zion.”

 

7            Let me announce the decree of the Lord: *

        he said to me, “You are my Son;

        this day have I begotten you.

 

8            Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for

your inheritance *

        and the ends of the earth for your possession.

 

9            You shall crush them with an iron rod *

        and shatter them like a piece of pottery.”

 

10            And now, you kings, be wise; *

        be warned, you rulers of the earth.

 

11            Submit to the Lord with fear, *

        and with trembling bow before him;

 

12            Lest he be angry and you perish; *

        for his wrath is quickly kindled.

13           

Happy are they all *

        who take refuge in him!