Psalm 2:4 ASV

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 2:1-12

Psalms 2:0 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. He discerns, in his widespread view, one perpetual restlessness, one ceaseless movement of discontent, the throbbing of a rebellion that cannot be appeased, of a vain, bitter, ceaseless revolt. That rebellion against God which in the vast ignorant masses of the world is half unconscious in their... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 2:1-12

DISCOURSE: 495OPPOSITION TO CHRIST VAINPsalms 2:1-12. 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, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 2:1-12

Psalms 2:1-12 The second psalm deals with the Kingdom Age. The glorious Kingdom Age when Jesus reigns upon the earth. A Messianic psalm.Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? For the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed ( Psalms 2:1-2 ),"His Anointed" there is His Messiah. The word Messiah is the anointed one. So they have taken counsel together against Jehovah and against His... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 2:1-12

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 remote, it is not the less prophetic on that account. The rending of the altar, 1 Kings 13:0., and Isaiah’s infant son, chap. 7., are both of that nature. To restrict this psalm to the Philistines, who took alarm at David’s coronation, would be applying it to an object not altogether novel, there... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 2:1-12

Psalms 2:1-12Why do the heathen rage? The prophetical element in the PsalmBut though the poem was occasioned by some national event, we must not confine its application to that event, nor need we even suppose that the singer himself did not feel that his words went beyond their first occasion. He begins to speak of an earthly king, and his wars with the nations of the earth; but his words are too great to have all their meaning exhausted in David, or Solomon, or Ahaz, or any Jewish monarch. Or... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 2:4-5

Psalms 2:4-5He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh . . . and vex them in His sore displeasure. First a laugh then a smiteThe heathen and the people, the kings and the rulers are answered with contempt, they are laughed at and derided; and if this be not enough to change their spirit and their purpose, they will be spoken to in wrath, and vexed in sore displeasure. It is interesting and instructive to remark how creation first laughs at and derides men who oppose it, and how in the next... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 2:4

Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Ver. 4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh at them ] Videt, ridet. He seeth and smileth, he looketh and laugheth, at these giants. He sitteth in heaven, far above their reach; neither doth he much trouble himself about the matter. No more should we; but trust in him, and know that there is a council in heaven that will dash the mould of all contrary counsels upon earth; as the stone cut out of... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 2:4

He that: Psalms 11:4, Psalms 68:33, Psalms 115:3, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 66:1 shall laugh: Psalms 37:13, Psalms 53:5, Psalms 59:8, 2 Kings 19:21, Proverbs 1:26 Reciprocal: Genesis 11:7 - confound Esther 6:4 - to speak Psalms 103:19 - prepared Psalms 123:1 - O thou Isaiah 7:7 - General Jeremiah 48:26 - and he also Matthew 21:41 - He will Luke 19:15 - having Acts 5:23 - The prison Romans 15:12 - and he read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 2:4

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.Sitteth — As the king of the whole world.Heavens — As an evidence both of God's clear and certain knowledge of all things that are done below, and of his sovereign and irresistible power.Laugh — Shall despise them and all their crafty devices. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 2:4

4. Laugh… derision A bold anthropomorphism, here signifying not only exultation, but the infinite ease with which God shall render abortive all their plans, which in Psalms 2:1 are called “vain,” nothing. See Psalms 37:13; Psalms 52:6 read more