KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 2:3–4
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Psalms 2:3
3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
3Let vs breake their bandes asunder, and cast away their cords from vs.
Psalms 2:4
4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
4*Hee that sitteth in the heauens shal laugh: the LORD shall haue them in derision.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 2:3
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To separate, fracture, open, interrupt, violate, subdue, or burst forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Company of men, or an assembly; to unite; to associate; to confederate for some common purpose.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 2:4
To laugh at in mockery, scorn, derision, or contempt.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Mockery, scorn, or ridicule.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
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Open the full verse study14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
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Open the full verse study7Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
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Open the full verse study27But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study13The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
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Open the full verse study8But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
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Open the full verse study26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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Open the full verse study22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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Open the full verse study4The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
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Open the full verse study15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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Open the full verse study3But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
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Open the full verse study5There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
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Open the full verse study33To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
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Open the full verse study1THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
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Open the full verse study21This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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