<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">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>

<p class="poetry">All the nations surrounded me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, in the name of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> I pushed them away.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You terrified the nations with your battle cry;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you destroyed the wicked;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you permanently wiped out all memory of them.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The nations fell<n id="1" /> into the pit they had made;p> <p class="poetry">their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Rise up, <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t let men be defiant!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">May the nations be judged in your presence!p>