Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.
For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
Jehovah of Hosts `is' with us, A tower for us `is' the God of Jacob. Selah.
I thank Thee among the peoples, O Lord, I praise Thee among the nations.
Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, The noise of Thy withstanders is going up continually!
Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.
Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.
and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,
and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,
And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat `them' with rods,
And they having heard, were cut `to the heart', and were taking counsel to slay them,
these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'