Study of the Psalms: Psalm 2

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Study Questions – Psalm 2

1.   What is the state of the nations?  What are the people doing? (2:1)

2.  (P) In what context do Peter and John apply Ps 2:1? (Acts 4:1-31) Who do they say wrote Psalm 2? (Acts 4:25)

3.  Who is taking their stand and who is taking counsel together against the LORD and against His Anointed? (2:2)

4.  (C) Who is the LORD? Who is His Anointed?

5.  What the kings of the earth and the rulers saying? (2:3)

6.  (A) How do you observe this kind of rebellion in the world today?

7.  What is the response of He who sits in the heavens? Response of the Lord? (2:4)

  How will He respond in His anger and in His fury? (2:5)

8.  Who has the LORD installed? Where has His King been installed? (2:6)

9.  (P) Who is the LORD’s king? (D) What outside verses would you use to prove this?

10.  Of what decree will the psalmist tell? (2:7) 

11.  (P) How was the prophecy fulfilled? (Acts 13:33; Heb 1:5; Heb 5:5)

12.  What will the LORD give His Son when He asks? What is His inheritance? Possession? (2:8)  With what will His Son break them? How will He shatter them? (2:9)

13.  (P) How does Jesus apply  this promise in Rev 2:26-27? From Whom did He receive this authority to rule over the nations?

14.  Who is to show discernment? Who is to take warning? (2:10)  How are they to worship the LORD? How are they to rejoice? (2:11)

15.  Why are the kings and judges to pay homage to the Son? Who is blessed? (2:12)

16.  (P) When will His wrath be kindled? (Rev 6:16-17)

17.  What do you learn about God from Ps 2?

18.  What attribute(s) of God are revealed in Ps 2?

Write a prayer in response to Ps 2.

TEXT (NASB):

Psa. 2:1    Why are the nations in an uproar 

And the peoples devising a vain thing?

²  The kings of the earth take their stand 

And the rulers take counsel together 

Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,

³  “Let us tear their fetters apart 

And cast away their cords from us!”

Psa. 2:4    He who sits in the heavens laughs, 

The Lord scoffs at them.

⁵  Then He will speak to them in His anger 

And terrify them in His fury, saying,

⁶  “But as for Me, I have installed My King 

Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Psa. 2:7    “I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: 

He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, 

Today I have begotten You.

⁸  ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, 

And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

⁹  ‘You shall break them with a rod of iron, 

You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

Psa. 2:10    Now therefore, O kings, show discernment; 

Take warning, O judges of the earth.

¹¹  Worship the LORD with reverence 

And rejoice with trembling.

¹²  Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, 

For His wrath may soon be kindled. 

How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!