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Why do the nations plan rebellion?
1 Why do people make their useless plots?
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Their kings revolt, their rulers plot together against the Lord and against the king he chose.
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"Let us free ourselves from their rule," they say; "let us throw off their control."
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From his throne in heaven the Lord laughs and mocks their feeble plans.
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Then he warns them in anger and terrifies them with his fury.
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"On Zion, my sacred hill," he says, "I have installed my king."
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"I will announce," says the king, "what the Lord has declared.
2 He said to me: "You are my son; today I have become your father.
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Ask, and I will give you all the nations; the whole earth will be yours.
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You will break them with an iron rod;
3 you will shatter them in pieces like a clay pot.' "