_WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE, AND THE PEOPLE IMAGINE A VAIN THING?_ Why - expressing indignant astonishment and horror. THE PAGAN - the Gentile nations х_ GOWYIM_ (H1471)], as distinguished from the Jews. THE PEOPLE - Hebrew, plural х_ Lª'UMIYM_ (H3816)]: the Hebrew singular is limited to the elect... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SET THEMSELVES, AND THE RULERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, AGAINST THE LORD, AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED, SAYING,_ Set themselves - implying their determined attitude in array "against Yahweh:" used of Goliath presenting himself in hostile attitude before Israel (1 Samuel 17:16). R... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET US BREAK THEIR BANDS ASUNDER, AND CAST AWAY THEIR CORDS FROM US._ The easy yoke of Jesus seems to natural men a galling chain. The law of Yahweh, and especially the Gospel law of Messiah, which to the godly is his "delight" and continual subject of "meditation" (Psalms 1:2), is to the ungodly... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE THAT SITTETH IN THE HEAVENS SHALL LAUGH: THE LORD SHALL HAVE THEM IN DERISION._ The scene passes from earth to heaven, from Antichrist and his confederate hosts to Yahweh on His throne above, laughing to scorn their purpose and then proceeding to execute judgment. SITTETH IN THE HEAVENS - and... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SHALL HE SPEAK UNTO THEM IN HIS WRATH, AND VEX THEM IN HIS SORE DISPLEASURE._ Then - at the moment when their might and profanity are at their height, and seemingly "nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do" (Genesis 11:6), as at Babel, when "the Lord came down." Wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_YET HAVE I SET MY KING UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION._ Yet - notwithstanding the opposition, of the anti-Christian confederacy. SET - margin, 'Anointed' (cf. Psalms 2:2). literally, 'poured out.' But in Proverbs 8:23 the Hebrew is translated "set up." In Micah 5:5, end, the cognate noun is translated... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE: THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO ME, THOU ART MY SON; THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE._ The Messiah-King, so appointed by God, reiterates in His own words what already had been said by God (Psalms 2:6), and further develops the same truth. DECLARE THE DECREE. [The preposition _ 'EL_... [ Continue Reading ]
_ASK OF ME, AND I SHALL GIVE THEE THE HEATHEN FOR THINE INHERITANCE, AND THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH FOR THY POSSESSION._ For God's King and Son nothing short of the whole earth is a proper dominion. HEATHEN - the nations. All that the Father hath is the Son's; yet here a particular and limi... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT BREAK THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON; THOU SHALT DASH THEM IN PIECES LIKE A POTTER'S VESSEL._ Break them with a rod of iron. Whichsoever of the pagan nations will not obey thee willingly as their rightful King, shall be broken by thee with a sceptre, not of ivory, silver, or gold, the ordinary... [ Continue Reading ]
_BE WISE NOW THEREFORE, O YE KINGS: BE INSTRUCTED, YE JUDGES OF THE EARTH._ Be wise ... O ye kings - offers of grace ever accompanying threats against sinners in this day of God's long-suffering. NOW THEREFORE - seeing that ye cannot by opposition overthrow Messiah's kingdom, but must be "dashed... [ Continue Reading ]
_SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR, AND REJOICE WITH TREMBLING._ Serve the Lord - instead of 'taking counsel together' to cast away the bands of Yahweh and His Messiah (Psalms 2:2). REJOICE, х_ GIYLUW_ (H1523)] - be ready with joyous acclamations to hail Him as your King at His second Advent (cf. Numbers... [ Continue Reading ]
_KISS THE SON, LEST HE BE ANGRY, AND YE PERISH FROM THE WAY, WHEN HIS WRATH IS KINDLED BUT A LITTLE. BLESSED ARE ALL THEY THAT PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM._ Kiss the Son. Adore is derived from kissing with the mouth the hand (ad os, 'to the mouth') in token of homage. A kiss has always in the East been... [ Continue Reading ]