Psalm 2:1-2

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

God’s Promise to His Anointed

2 ^[a]Why do the nations conspire,
and the peoples plot in vain?
²The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,

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Footnotes

2 Together with Ps 110 a royal, Messianic psalm, often applied to Jesus as Messiah in the New Testament.

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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