I will declare the decree; the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day I have begotten thee.

let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.

Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?

Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath and trouble them in his sore displeasure.

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Understand now therefore, O ye kings: receive chastening, ye judges of the earth.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the Gentiles for thine inheritance and unto the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled in a little while. Blessed are all those that put their trust in him.

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

He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,