VERSE STUDY • KJV

Psalm 2:3

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

Read it in 5 translations

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.

‘Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.’

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

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