Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
You will break them with an iron rod, you will shatter them like pottery."
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
A Conservative Version
Thou shall break them with a rod of iron, thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt 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 you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your possession. 9 You will break them with an iron rod, you will shatter them like pottery." 10 Therefore, kings, act wisely! Earthly rulers, be warned!
Cross References
Psalm 89:23
I will crush his enemies before him and strike those who hate him.
Revelation 12:5
She gave birth to a son, a boy, who is to rule all the nations with an iron scepter. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne.
Psalm 110:5-6
The Lord is at your right hand; he will utterly destroy kings in the time of his wrath.
Isaiah 30:14
Its breaking will be like when potters' vessels are broken, shattered so ruthlessly that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found for taking fire from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."
Jeremiah 19:11
and say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.
Revelation 2:26-27
To the person who conquers and continues to do what I've commanded to the end, I will give authority over the nations.
Psalm 21:8-9
Your hand will find all your enemies, your right hand will find those who hate you.
Isaiah 60:12
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; those nations will be utterly ruined.
Daniel 2:44
"During the reigns of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor its sovereignty left in the hands of another people. It will shatter and crush all of these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
Matthew 21:44
The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls."
Revelation 19:15
A sharp sword comes out of his mouth to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod and tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.