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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 2

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This is Psalm 2, a royal psalm from the Hebrew Bible, presented in four parallel textual traditions: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The psalm opens with a rhetorical challenge — why do nations and rulers conspire against God and his anointed king? — and answers with divine mockery and wrath directed at those who rebel. God declares the Davidic king his own son, begotten on this day, and promises him dominion over all nations, which he will rule with an iron scepter and shatter like pottery. The psalm closes with a direct exhortation to earthly kings: submit in fear, "kiss the Son," lest divine anger destroy them swiftly — with a final beatitude for those who take refuge in God. The distinctive scholarly feature of this presentation is the synoptic, column-by-column alignment of four canonical versions, making it a text-critical resource for comparing how different traditions render the same psalm, including notably how the Greek uses *christou* (anointed/Christ) and the Latin *christum ejus* where the Hebrew has *meshicho*.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 2

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