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25 it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant:[a]

‘Why did the gentiles rage
    and the peoples imagine vain things?(A)

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  1. 4.25 Or child

Psalm 2

God’s Promise to His Anointed

Why do the nations conspire
    and the peoples plot in vain?(A)
The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(B)
“Let us burst their bonds apart
    and cast their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens laughs;
    the Lord has them in derision.(C)
Then he will speak to them in his wrath
    and terrify them in his fury, saying,(D)
“I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”(E)

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16 “Brothers and sisters,[a] the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus,(A)

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  1. 1.16 Gk Men, brothers

30 Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne.(A)

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