Verse 1

Why do the Heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vayne thing?

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: but they coulde not bring it to passe.
  • Ps 46:6 : 6 The heathen make much a do, and the kyngdomes are moued: but God shewed his voyce, and the earth melted away.
  • Ps 83:4-8 : 4 They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce. 5 For they haue conspired all in one minde: & are confederate against thee. 6 The pauilions of Edom and the Ismaelites: of Moab, and Hagerites, 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec: the Philistines with the inhabitauntes of Tyre. 8 Assur also is ioyned vnto them: they were a great ayde to the chyldren of Lot. Selah.
  • Rev 17:14 : 14 These shall fyght with the lambe, and the lambe shall ouercome them: For he is Lorde of Lordes, and Kyng of Kynges, and they that are on his syde, are called, and chosen, and faythfull.
  • John 11:49-50 : 49 And one of them named Caiaphas, beyng the hye priest that same yere, sayde vnto them: Ye perceaue nothyng at all, 50 Nor consider, that it is expedient for vs, that one man dye for the people, and not that all the people perishe.
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 When they hearde that, they claue asunder, and sought meanes to slea the.
  • Acts 16:22 : 22 And the people ran agaynst them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.
  • Acts 17:5-6 : 5 But the Iewes whiche beleued not, moued with enuie, toke vnto them certaine vagaboundes and euyll men, and gathered a companie, and set all the citie on a rore, and made assault vnto the house of Iason, & sought to bryng them out to the people. 6 And when they founde them not, they drewe Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heades of the citie, crying: these that trouble the world, are come hyther also,
  • Acts 19:28-32 : 28 And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of ye Ephesians. 29 And all the citie was on a rore, & they russhed into the common hall with one assent, and caught Gaius & Aristarcus, men of Macedonia, Paules companions. 30 When Paule woulde haue entred in vnto ye people, the disciples suffred hym not. 31 But certaine of ye chiefe of Asia, which were his friendes, sent vnto hym, desiryng hym that he would not preasse into the common hall. 32 Some therfore cryed one thyng, and some another, and the assemblie was all out of quiet, and the more part knew not wherfore they were come together.
  • Acts 4:25-26 : 25 Which by the mouth of thy seruaunt Dauid, hast sayde: Why dyd the Heathen rage, & the people imagine vayne thynges? 26 The kynges of the earth stoode vp, and the rulers came together, agaynst the Lorde, and agaynst his Christe.
  • Ps 18:42 : 42 I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates.
  • Isa 8:9 : 9 Breake downe O ye people, and ye shalbe broken downe, hearken to all ye of farre countreys: muster you, and you shalbe broken downe, prepare you, and you shalbe torne in peeces.
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 But when the husband men sawe the sonne, they sayde among them selues: this is the heire, come, let vs kyll hym, and let vs enioy his inheritaunce.
  • Luke 18:32 : 32 For he shalbe deliuered vnto the gentiles, and shalbe mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
  • Luke 22:1-2 : 1 The feast of sweete breade drewe nye, which is called the Passouer. 2 And ye hie priestes and scribes sought howe they myght kyll hym, for they feared the people.
  • Luke 22:22-23 : 22 And truely the sonne of man goeth as it is appoynted: but wo vnto that man by whom he is betrayed. 23 And they began to enquire among them selues, which of them it was that shoulde do it.