1. Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples 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 sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5. Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath and trouble them in his sore displeasure.