<t /><p class="poetry">Why<n id="2" /> do the nations rebel?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why<n id="4" /> are the countries<n id="5" /> devising<n id="6" /> plots that will fail?<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">He handed them over to<n id="1" /> the nations,p> <p class="poetry">and those who hated them ruled over them.p>

<p class="poetry">He defeated many nations,p> <p class="poetry">and killed mighty kings &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Nations come to your light,p> <p class="poetry">kings to your bright light.p>

<p class="poetry">You furiously stomp on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you angrily trample down the nations.p>

<p class="poetry">Babylonia had been a gold cup in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s hand.p> <p class="poetry">She had made the whole world drunk.p> <p class="poetry">The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">So they have all gone mad.<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;As for me,<n id="1" /> this<n id="2" /> is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

<p class="poetry">Ask me,p> <p class="poetry">and I will give you the nations as your inheritance,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the ends of the earth as your personal property.p>

<p class="poetry">The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">this is the destiny of<n id="2" /> all the nations that ignore<n id="3" /> God,p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> rules forever!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The nations are driven out of his land.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> frustrates<n id="1" /> the decisions of the nations;p> <p class="poetry">he nullifies the plans<n id="2" /> of the peoples.p>

<p class="poetry">But you, O <sc>Lordsc>, laugh in disgust at them;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you taunt<n id="2" /> all the nations.p>

<p class="poetry">Then those living on earth will know what you are like;p> <p class="poetry">all nations will know how you deliver your people.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">All kings will bow down to him;p> <p class="poetry">all nations will serve him.p>

<p class="poetry">You uprooted a vine<n id="1" /> from Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">you drove out nations and transplanted it.p>

<p class="poetry">Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?p> <p class="poetry">He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!p>

<p class="poetry">He handed the territory of nations over to them,p> <p class="poetry">and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He announced that he would do mighty deeds for his people,p> <p class="poetry">giving them a land that belonged to other nations.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is exalted over all the nations;p> <p class="poetry">his splendor reaches beyond the sky.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>, all you nations!p> <p class="poetry">Applaud him, all you foreigners!<n id="2" />p>