God's anointed king and son

¹ Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

² The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

³ “Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

⁵ Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

⁶ “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

⁷ I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

⁸ Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

¹⁰ Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

¹¹ Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

¹² Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

³² We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

³³ that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

³⁴ “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

³⁶ For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

³⁷ But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

⁵ For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

⁶ When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

⁷ Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire.”

⁸ But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

⁹ You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”