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Psalms 2:1

NETBible	Why² do the nations rebel?³ Why⁴ are the countries⁵ devising⁶ plots that will fail?⁷
NIV © biblegateway Psa 2:1	Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
NASB © biblegateway Psa 2:1	Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing?
NLT © biblegateway Psa 2:1	Why do the nations rage? Why do the people waste their time with futile plans?
MSG © biblegateway Psa 2:1	Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples?
BBE © SABDAweb Psa 2:1	Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?
NRSV © bibleoremus Psa 2:1	Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?
NKJV © biblegateway Psa 2:1	Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?
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KJV	Why do the heathen <01471> rage <07283> (8804)_, and the people <03816> imagine <01897> (8799) a vain thing <07385>_? {rage: or, tumultuously assemble} {imagine: Heb. meditate}
NASB © biblegateway Psa 2:1	Why <04100> are the nations <01471> in an uproar <07283> And the peoples <03816> devising <01897> a vain <07385> thing <07385> ?
LXXM	ina <2443> CONJ ti <5100> I-ASN efruaxan <5433> V-AAI-3P eynh <1484> N-NPN kai <2532> CONJ laoi <2992> N-NPM emelethsan {V-AAI-3P} kena <2756> A-APN
NET [draft] ITL	Why <04100> do the nations <01471> rebel <07283> ? Why are the countries <03816> devising <01897> plots that will fail <07385> ?
HEBREW	qyr <07385> wghy <01897> Mymalw <03816> Mywg <01471> wsgr <07283> hml (2:1) <04100>

NETBible

Why² do the nations rebel?³ Why⁴ are the countries⁵ devising⁶ plots that will fail?⁷

NET Notes

¹sn Psalm 2. In this royal psalm the author asserts the special status of the divinely chosen Davidic king and warns the nations and their rulers to submit to the authority of God and his chosen vice-regent.

²tn The question is rhetorical. Rather than seeking information, the psalmist expresses his outrage that the nations would have the audacity to rebel against God and his chosen king.

³tn The Hebrew verb רָגַשׁ (ragash) occurs only here. In Dan 6:6, 11, 15 the Aramaic cognate verb describes several officials acting as a group. A Hebrew nominal derivative is used in Ps 55:14 of a crowd of people in the temple.

⁴tn The interrogative לָמָּה (lamah, “why?”) is understood by ellipsis in the second line.

⁵tn Or “peoples” (so many English versions).

⁶tn The Hebrew imperfect form describes the rebellion as underway. The verb הָגָה (hagah), which means “to recite quietly, meditate,” here has the metonymic nuance “devise, plan, plot” (see Ps 38:12; Prov 24:2).

⁷tn Heb “devising emptiness.” The noun רִיק (riq, “emptiness”) may characterize their behavior as “worthless, morally bankrupt” but more likely refers to the outcome of their plots (i.e., failure). As the rest of the psalm emphasizes, their rebellion will fail.