¹ Why do the nations gather together?
    Why do their people devise useless plots?
² Kings take their stands.
    Rulers make plans together
        against Yahweh and against his Mashiach^[a] by saying,
³             “Let’s break apart their chains
                and shake off their ropes.”

²⁶ Kings take their stand.
    Rulers make plans together
        against the Lord and against his Messiah.’