2 Why do the nations rant?
    Why do the peoples rave uselessly?
² The earth’s rulers take their stand;
    the leaders scheme together
    against the Lord and
    against his anointed one.
³         “Come!” they say.
        “We will tear off their ropes
        and throw off their chains!”
⁴ The one who rules in heaven laughs;
    my Lord makes fun of them.
⁵ But then God speaks to them angrily;
    then he terrifies them with his fury:
⁶         “I hereby appoint my king on Zion,
        my holy mountain!”

8 Lord, our Lord, how majestic
    is your name throughout the earth!
    You made your glory higher than heaven!^[b]
2 From the mouths of nursing babies
    you have laid a strong foundation
    because of your foes,
    in order to stop vengeful enemies.
³ When I look up at your skies,
    at what your fingers made—
    the moon and the stars
    that you set firmly in place—
⁴         what are human beings
            that you think about them;
        what are human beings
            that you pay attention to them?
⁵ You’ve made them only slightly less than divine,
    crowning them with glory and grandeur.
⁶ You’ve let them rule over your handiwork,
    putting everything under their feet—
⁷         all sheep and all cattle,
        the wild animals too,
⁸         the birds in the sky,
        the fish of the ocean,
        everything that travels the pathways of the sea.
⁹ Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!