Psalm 2:7-12

Good News Translation

^7 (A)“I will announce,” says the king, “what the Lord has declared.
    He said to me: ‘You are my son;
    today I have become your father.
⁸ Ask, and I will give you all the nations;
    the whole earth will be yours.
^9 (B)You will break them with an iron rod;
    you will shatter them in pieces like a clay pot.’”

¹⁰ Now listen to this warning, you kings;
    learn this lesson, you rulers of the world:
¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear;
tremble ¹²     and bow down to him;^[a]
or else his anger will be quickly aroused,
    and you will suddenly die.
Happy are all who go to him for protection.