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Psalms 2:9
Psalms 2:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
LXX You will rule them or You will shepherd them
Cited in Revelation 2:27; see also Revelation 12:5 and Revelation 19:15.
King James Version
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
World English Bible
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
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Psalms 2:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
8 Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
9 You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
10 Therefore be wise, O kings; be admonished, O judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 21:8Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
Psalms 21:9You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
Psalms 89:23I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
Psalms 110:5The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
Psalms 110:6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
Isaiah 30:14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
Isaiah 60:12For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
Jeremiah 19:11and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
Daniel 2:44In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
Revelation 2:26And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
Revelation 2:27He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.
Revelation 12:5And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.