◄ Psalm 2:3 ►
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Good News Translation
"Let us free ourselves from their rule," they say; "let us throw off their control."

New Revised Standard Version
“Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us.”

Contemporary English Version
They say, "Let's cut the ropes and set ourselves free!"

New American Bible
“Let us break their shackles and cast off their chains from us!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.

Jeremiah 5:5 I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Luke 19:14 But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.

1 Peter 2:7,8 To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner: . . .

Context
The Triumphant Messiah
…2The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ. 3Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.4He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.…
Cross References
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Psalm 2:2
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