Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
New American Standard Bible
You shall
King James Version
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Holman Bible
You
International Standard Version
You will break them with an iron rod, you will shatter them like pottery."
A Conservative Version
Thou shall break them with a rod of iron, thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Amplified
‘You shall break them with a rod of iron;
You shall shatter them [in pieces] like earthenware.’”
Bible in Basic English
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt break them with a sceptre of iron, as a potter's vessel thou shalt dash them in pieces.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; as a potter's vessel shalt thou break them in pieces. kings, and be instructed, ye judging the land.
King James 2000
You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter's vessel you will shatter them."
Modern King James verseion
You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron, and break them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
NET Bible
You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter's jar!'"
New Heart English Bible
You shall rule them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
The Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt shepherd them with a sceptre of iron, - as a potter's vessel, shalt thou dash them in pieces.
Webster
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
World English Bible
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
Themes
Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Rods for scourging
Iron » Illustrative » Of severe exercise of power
Kings » Judgments upon, when opposed to Christ
Power » Of Christ » The wicked will be destroyed by
Topics
Interlinear
Ra`a`
Naphats
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 2:9
Prayers for Psalm 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Messiah's Reign
8 Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, And 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. 10 Now therefore be wise, O ye kings: Be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Cross References
Psalm 89:23
And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.
Revelation 12:5
And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.
Psalm 110:5-6
The Lord at thy right hand Will strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Isaiah 30:14
And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
Jeremiah 19:11
and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
Revelation 2:26-27
And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations:
Psalm 21:8-9
Thy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee.
Isaiah 60:12
For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Daniel 2:44
And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Matthew 21:44
And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.
Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.