1. Why do the nations protestand the peoples conspire in vain?
2. Kings on earth rise upand princes plot togetheragainst the Lord and against his anointed one:
3. “Let us break their shacklesand cast off their chains from us!”
4. The one enthroned in heaven laughs;the Lord derides them,
5. Then he speaks to them in his anger,in his wrath he terrifies them:
6. “I myself have installed my kingon Zion, my holy mountain.”
7. I will proclaim the decree of the Lord,he said to me, “You are my son;today I have begotten you.