Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
'Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'
New American Standard Bible
And cast away their cords from us!”
King James Version
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Holman Bible
“Let us tear off their chains
and free ourselves from their restraints.”
International Standard Version
"Let us tear off their shackles from us, and cast off their chains."
A Conservative Version
Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.
American Standard Version
Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.
Amplified
“Let us break apart their [divine] bands [of restraint]
And cast away their cords [of control] from us.”
Bible in Basic English
Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.
Darby Translation
Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us!
Julia Smith Translation
We will tear away his bands, and we will cast away his cords from us.
King James 2000
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Let us tear off their bonds, and cast their cords from us!"
Modern King James verseion
Let us break their bands in two and cast away their cords from us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
NET Bible
They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"
New Heart English Bible
"Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."
The Emphasized Bible
Let us break asunder their bonds, - and cast from us their cords!
Webster
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
World English Bible
"Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."
Themes
Anger of God » Extreme, against those who oppose the gospel
Counsel » Those that take counsel together against the lord
Interlinear
Nathaq
Nathaq
Shalak
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 2:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Messiah's Reign
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.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:5
I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.
Luke 19:14
and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.
Luke 19:27
but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'
1 Peter 2:7-8
to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,