Verse 1

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
  • Ps 46:6 : 6 Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
  • Ps 83:4-8 : 4 They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from `being' a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.' 5 For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make, 6 Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes, 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre, 8 Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.
  • Rev 17:14 : 14 these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'
  • John 11:49-50 : 49 and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything, 50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 And they having heard, were cut `to the heart', and were taking counsel to slay them,
  • Acts 16:22 : 22 And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat `them' with rods,
  • Acts 17:5-6 : 5 And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring `them' to the populace, 6 and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- `These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,
  • Acts 19:28-32 : 28 And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great `is' the Artemis of the Ephesians!' 29 and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travellers. 30 And on Paul's purposing to enter in unto the populace, the disciples were not suffering him, 31 and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre. 32 Some indeed, therefore, were calling out one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they were come together;
  • Acts 4:25-26 : 25 who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things? 26 the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;
  • Ps 18:42 : 42 And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.
  • Isa 8:9 : 9 Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
  • Luke 18:32 : 32 for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,
  • Luke 22:1-2 : 1 And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover, 2 and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.
  • Luke 22:22-23 : 22 and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but wo to that man through whom he is being delivered up.' 23 And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.