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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.
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Yet I have set my king upon Zion, the mountain of my holiness.
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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.