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[1]Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
[2]Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:
[3]`Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'
[4]He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.
[5]Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them:
[6]`And I -- I have anointed My King, Upon Zion -- My holy hill.'
[7]I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou [art], I to-day have brought thee forth.
[8]Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.
[9]Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
[10]And now, O kings, act wisely, Be instructed, O judges of earth,
[11]Serve ye Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
[12]Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!
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