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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Psalms 2:5

Rage. These, and similar expressions, when applied to the immutable Deity, only denote that men have deserved the worst of punishments. (Haydock) --- God had discomfited the enemies of David (2 Kings v. 20, 24.) by his thunder. But he still more confounded the devil, when Christ descended to take away his spoils; and he chastised the Jews by the ruin of their city, (Calmet) as he has or will do all persecutors of his Church. (Haydock) --- He will severely reprehend, and justly punish the obstinate. (Worthington)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 2:5. _THEN SHALL HE SPEAK UNTO THEM IN HIS WRATH_] He did so to the Jews who rejected the Gospel, and vexed and ruined them by the Roman armies; he did so with the opposing Roman emperors...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN SHALL HE SPEAK UNTO THEM - That is, this seeming indifference and unconcern will not last forever. He will not always look calmly on, nor will he suffer them to accomplish their purposes without...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 2 THE REJECTED KING _ 1. The rejection and the coming confederacy (Psalms 2:1)_ 2. Jehovah's attitude and interference (Psalms 2:4) 3. The coming of the King and his inheritance ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    II. MESSIAH'S REIGN. Also without a title. Here we have a distinctly Messianic Ps., put in this place, possibly, as an introduction to other Messianic Pss. which follow. Messianic it is in the stricte...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The poet-seer draws aside the veil, and bids us look from earth to heaven. There the supreme Ruler of the world sits enthroned in majesty. With sovereign contempt He surveys these petty plottings, and...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then_ There is a limit to the divine patience. He will not always look on in silence. If they persist in their folly He must speak, and His word (like that of His representative, Isaiah 11:4) is powe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN SHALL HE SPEAK UNTO THEM— This denotes, not God's speaking to them by an audible voice; but his making them know, to their full conviction, by the disappointment of their schemes, and the vengean...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 2 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Messiah's Reign in Zion Assured. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 2:1-3, A Conspiracy against Jehovah and His Anointed Foretold. Stanza II., Psalms 2:4-6, Jehovah's Counter...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The historical situation of this Ps. cannot now be recovered. It may refer to some threatened rebellion of subject kings in the early days of Solomon, or to some similar movement under one of the late...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEN] i.e. when the plot ripens into action....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN. — An emphatic particle, marking the climax; possibly equal to “Lo! behold.” The grand roll of the words in the original is like the roll of the thunder, and is rendered more effective by its con...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֤ז יְדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלֵ֣ימֹו בְ אַפֹּ֑ו וּֽ בַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 2:1 VARIOUS unsatisfactory conjectures as to a historical basis for this magnificent lyric have been made, but none succeeds in specifying events which fit with the situation painted in it. The...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S SON UPON HIS THRONE Psalms 2:1 This is one of the sublimest of the Psalms, and can find its fulfillment only in our Lord. See Acts 4:25; Acts 13:33; H

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the psalm of Jehovah's King. It is impossible to fix the event for which it was written and to which it first referred. The wider application is perfectly patent. To whatsoever king the words...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (c) Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. (c) God's plagues will declare that in resisting his Christ, they fought against him....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What is here said of the sovereignty of Jehovah, of sitting in the heavens, of speaking in his wrath, of laughing, and the like, is intended to convey, by expressions of this nature, is best adapted t...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Moreover, he ascribes speech to God, not for the purpose of instructing his enemies, but only to convict them of their madness; indeed, by the term _speak, _he means nothing else than a manifestation...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 1 AND 2. In Psalms 1, however, we have simply the godly remnant on the earth. I say remnant, for the subject of the psalm is spoken of as characterized by indivi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL HE SPEAK UNTO THEM IN HIS WRATH,.... Or, "and he shall speak to them"; so Noldius: that is, the Lord that sits in the heavens, and laughs, and has the Heathen, the people, the kings and rul...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Ver. 5. _Then shall he speak unto them, &c._] Heb. He shall tell them, viz. a piece of his mind, to their small comfo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then_ In the midst of all their plots and confidence of success; _shall he speak unto them in his wrath_ That is, severely rebuke them, not only by his prophets and other messengers in words, but by...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then, on the great day of wrath and Judgment, SHALL HE SPEAK UNTO THEM IN HIS WRATH, in the white heat of His just anger, AND VEX THEM IN HIS SORE DISPLEASURE, trouble, terrify, and utterly overthrow...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE ETERNAL SONSHIP OF THE MESSIAH. The Futile Rage Of The Nations. That the entire psalm is Messianic is clearly shown by the quotation Acts 4:25, together with the explanation there added: "For...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    VEX: Or, trouble...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 We are here told who would appear as adversaries to Christ. As this world is the kingdom of Satan, unconverted men, of every rank, party, and character, are stirred up by him to oppose the cause...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN; in the midst of all their plots and confidences of success. SHALL HE SPEAK TO THEM IN HIS WRATH; he shall severely rebuke them, not so much verbally as really, by dreadful judgments. For God's _...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 2:5 speak H1696 (H8762) wrath H639 distress H926 (H8762) displeasure H2740 Then - P

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD WILL LAUGH AT MAN'S FOLLY AND EXALT HIS ANOINTED. ‘He who sits in the heavens will laugh, The Lord will have them in derision, Then will he speak to them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 2 I. The Psalm opens abruptly; here is no prelude; it is an utterance of amazement, begotten in the soul and breaking from the lips of one who looks out upon the nations and generations of man....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 2:1. _Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, sayi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 2:1. _Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, sayi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 2:1. _Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD, and against his anointed, sayin...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The psalm of the king; rejected, established and finally reigning. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, kings of earth. CONCLUSION: The kings of earth are ever setting themselves in array against God...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm, by a constant succession of the rabbins, is applied to Christ. If it have any bearing on David's enemies, for the eyes of prophets were often directed from objects near, to those which are...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. .. and vex them in His sore displeasure._ FIRST A LAUGH THEN A SMITE The heathen and the people, the kings and the rulers are answered with contempt, they...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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    INTRODUCTION “It is quite impossible now to say what the event was which occasioned this poem. The older interpreters referred it to David, and the attacks made upon him by the Philistines (2 Samuel 5...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HERE we have again a psalm without a title, and, so far, we are left to conjecture its age and author. The Jews, however, have always regarded it as Davidical; and there is evidence in Scri...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 66:6; Luke 19:27; Luke 19:43; Luke 19:44;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE PREFATORY PSALMS Psalms 1:1, _Psalms 2:1, and Psalms 3:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm. It gives you the ke...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    CHRIST VERSUS THE ANTICHRIST Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Satan an adept at counterfeits. As we enter into our study in the Psalms, we must first get the great message of the Psalms...

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