Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

He defeated many nations, and killed mighty kings –

Nations come to your light, kings to your bright light.

You furiously stomp on the earth, you angrily trample down the nations.

Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord’s hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property.

The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,

The Lord rules forever! The nations are driven out of his land.

The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

But you, O Lord, laugh in disgust at them; you taunt all the nations.

Then those living on earth will know what you are like; all nations will know how you deliver your people.

All kings will bow down to him; all nations will serve him.

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it.

Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,

He announced that he would do mighty deeds for his people, giving them a land that belonged to other nations.

The Lord is exalted over all the nations; his splendor reaches beyond the sky.

Praise the Lord, all you nations! Applaud him, all you foreigners!