I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

"Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

"Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion."

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,