^{1 Ref} Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

^{2 Ref} Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

^{3 Ref} `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

^{4 Ref} He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

^{5 Ref} Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them:

^{6 Ref} `And I -- I have anointed My King, Upon Zion -- My holy hill.'

^{7 Ref} I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou `art', I to-day have brought thee forth.

^{8 Ref} Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.

^{9 Ref} Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'