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Psalms 2
1 Why do the Heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vayne thing?2 The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed.3 Let vs breake [say they] their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs.4 He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision.5 Then wyll he speake vnto them in his wrath: and he wyll astonie them with feare in his sore displeasure.6 [Saying] euen I haue annointed [him] my kyng: vpon my holy hyll of Sion.
7 I wyll declare the decree, God sayde vnto me: thou art my sonne, this day I haue begotten thee.8 Desire of me, and I wyll geue thee the heathen for thyne inheritaunce: and the vttermost partes of the earth for thy possession.9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron: and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell.
10 Wherfore be you nowe wel aduised O ye kinges: be you learned ye [that are] iudges of the earth.11 Serue ye God in feare: and reioyce ye with a trembling.12 Kisse ye the sonne lest that he be angrye, and [so] ye perishe [from] the way, if his wrath be neuer so litle kindled: blessed are all they that put their trust in hym.