Psalms 2:1

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

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  • Ps 21:11 : 11 Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.
  • Ps 46:6 : 6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown. God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.
  • Ps 83:4-8 : 4 They say,“Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.” 5 Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. 6 It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. 8 Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot.(Selah)
  • Rev 17:14 : 14 They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.”
  • John 11:49-50 : 49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said,“You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 Now when they heard this, they became furious and wanted to execute them.
  • Acts 16:22 : 22 The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
  • Acts 17:5-6 : 5 But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly. 6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming,“These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,
  • Acts 19:28-32 : 28 When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout,“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29 The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions. 30 But when Paul wanted to enter the public assembly, the disciples would not let him. 31 Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater. 32 So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.
  • Acts 4:25-26 : 25 who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather,‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things? 26 The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’
  • Ps 18:42 : 42 I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.
  • Isa 8:9 : 9 You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’
  • Luke 18:32 : 32 For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on.
  • Luke 22:1-2 : 1 Judas’ Decision to Betray Jesus Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. 2 The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.
  • Luke 22:22-23 : 22 For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!” 23 So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

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    12Beware, you many nations massing together, those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves. Beware, you people making such an uproar, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves.

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    3How long will you threaten a man? All of you are murderers, as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.

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    9Denunciation and Destruction of Nineveh Whatever you plot against the LORD, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.

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    13Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

  • Job 40:11
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    11Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

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    6Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!

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    4They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.

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    1A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom. LORD, how numerous are my enemies! Many attack me.

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    24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

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    11you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders on the earth,

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    21They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

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    11Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

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    1For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul:“David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God’s loyal love protects me all day long!

  • Joel 3:11-12
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    11Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place.” Bring down, O LORD, your warriors!

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    10Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

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    3A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

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    14with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

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    5O Lord, at your right hand he strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger.

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    1The Lord Will Judge Edom Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

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    10All the nations surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.

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    15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.