Psalm 2:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast their cords from us.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let us break their bands asunder, And cast away their cords from us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let us break Their bands [of restraint] asunder and cast Their cords [of control] from us.

American Standard Version (1901)

Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.

Common English Bible

“Come!” they say. “We will tear off their ropes and throw off their chains!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

"Let us shatter their chains and cast their yoke away from us."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Psalm 2:3 Cross References

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and prostituted yourself.

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Luke 19:14

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

Luke 19:27

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to rule over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.’ ”