Psalms 2:1 meaning and explanation

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 2:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Psalm 2 opens with a question spoken by the psalmist, likely a royal psalm used at a king's coronation in Jerusalem. The nations and peoples are not abstract foreigners but the surrounding powers whose hostility toward Israel and its king was a lived reality.

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