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Psalm 2:1-4
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Rich Mullins used the language of Psalm 2 as the setting for a song about Jesus’ triumph over death:
Expository Songs
- Psalm 2:1-6: The Kingship of Jesus
- Psalm 2:5-9: Christ’s Inheritance
- Psalm 2:8: The future increase of the Church promised (Thomas Gibbons)
- Psalm 2: As For Me (Psalm 2) (Christy Nockels)
- Psalm 2: Attend, O earth, when God declares (Nahum Tate)
- Psalm 2: God Sits In the Highest Place (Colin Buchanan/Colin Buchanan)
- Psalm 2: He Will Rage (Psalm 2) (My Soul Among Lions)
- Psalm 2: In Vain The Savior’s Mightiest Foes (Anonymous (Introduced in Thoms Cotterill’s A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, 1814).)
- Psalm 2: Kiss the Son (Jamie Soles/Jamie Soles)
- Psalm 2: Kiss the Son (Psalm 2) (Andy Rising)
- Psalm 2: Maker And Sovereign Lord (Isaac Watts/ed. Isaac Watts)
- Psalm 2: Nations Rage (Psalm 2) (Heather Clark)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Tim Tennent, Julie Tennent/Seedbed)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Jason Silver)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Kirkplace Music)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Poor Bishop Hooper)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Psalm Project Africa)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Ted Pearce and Cultural Xchange)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 – Why Do the Nations Rage? (John Gouveia)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 “Why Do the Heathen So Furiously Rage Together” (Norwich Cathedral Choir)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Kiss Ye The Son) (Brian Sauvé)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Nations So Angry) (Randy Gordon)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Why Do the Nations Conspire?) (Jeff Lowe)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 Genevan (Jamie Soles)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 Kiss the Son (Dean C. Danforth)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2, I Have Set My King In Zion (Karl Kohlhase)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2, Trust in the Lord (Psalms Reborn)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2: Kiss the Son (The Psalms Project)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2: My King to Reign (Brother Paul)
- Psalm 2: Rebel’s Folly (Psalm 2) (Thomas Pryde)
- Psalm 2: Rod Of Iron (Psalm 2) (Ron Kurtz)
- Psalm 2: Rod of Iron (Psalm 2) (Tarblossom Music)
- Psalm 2: Such Clever Follies (Brian Sauvé)
- Psalm 2: The Exaltation and universal Reign of CHRIST
- Psalm 2: The Nations Rage (Psalm 2) (My Soul Among Lions)
- Psalm 2: The Nations Rage and Fall (Adrian Snell)
- Psalm 2: This Your Right to Do (Psalm 2) (Frances Phipps)
- Psalm 2: Thus God declares his sovereign will
- Psalm 2: What desp’rate madness strikes the heathen? Say (Thomas Cradock)
- Psalm 2: Wherefore Do the Nations Rage (From The Psalter (1912))
- Psalm 2: Wherefore do the nations wage (Charles Wesley)
- Psalm 2: Why Did The Jews Proclaim Their Rage (Isaac Watts/ed. Isaac Watts)
- Psalm 2: Why Did The Nations Join To Slay (Isaac Watts/ed. Isaac Watts)
- Psalm 2: Why Do Gentile Nations Rage? (Psalm 2b) (Crown and Covenant)
- Psalm 2: Why Do Gentiles Rage? (Psalm 2 D) (Crown and Covenant)
- Psalm 2: Why Do Heathen Nations Rage? (Anonymous (introduced in OPC/URCNA 2016).)
- Psalm 2: Why do the Heathen furious rage (John Barnard)
- Psalm 2: Why do the Heathen madly rage (John Barnard)
- Psalm 2: Why Do The Heathen Nations Rise (Anne Steele)
- Psalm 2: Why Do The Heathen Nations Vainly Rage (Psalm 2) (Brother Down)
- Psalm 2: Why do the heathen storm with ire?
- Psalm 2: Why do the nations move and rage
- Psalm 2: Why Do the Nations Rage (Psalm 2) (The SHIYR Poets)
- Psalm 2: Why Do the Nations Rage? (Psalm 2) (A Common Psalter)
- Psalm 2: Why Rage The Heathen And Vain Things
- Psalm 2: Why rage the heathen furiously
- Psalm 2: With ever restless, and ungovern’d Rage (Francis Hopkinson)
- Psalm 2: With restless and ungoverned rage
- Psalm 2: You Are My Son (Psalm 2) (Bill Monaghan)
- Psalm 2: You Are My Son (Psalm 2) (Hoss Hughes)
Other References
- Psalm 2:1: Ancient of Days (Jonny Robinson, Rich Thompson, Michael Farren, Jesse Reeves/CityAlight)
- Psalm 2:1: Be Still (John and Diane Windle)
- Psalm 2:1: Come, Behold! (Lindsay Hendricks)
- Psalm 2:1: King of Zion (Fanny Crosby, William Doane)
- Psalm 2:1: Kings and Kingdoms (Travis Cottrell)
- Psalm 2:1: My Soul Finds Rest in God Alone (Lee Black, Tony Wood, John Althoff/Lee Black)
- Psalm 2:1: The Lord Said To Me (William Ferris)
- Psalm 2:4: Who Is Like Our God (Eric Grover/Sovereign Grace Music)
- Psalm 2:8: God has said it, and his promise (Thomas MacKellar, J.L. Field)
- Psalm 2:8: Please Don’t Send Me To Africa (Phill McHugh, Scott Wesley Brown/Scott Wesley Brown)
- Psalm 2:9: Behold Your King (My Soul Among Lions)
- Psalm 2:9: Kingdom Hymn (Buddy Greene, Edward Miller/Buddy Greene)
- Psalm 2: Be Still and Know (Aaron Bush)
- Psalm 2: Higher and Higher (Psalm 2) (Enter the Worship Circle)
- Psalm 2: O Wherefore Do the Nations Rage (Lowell Mason)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Don’t You Know There’s a King in Zion?) (Matt Greene)
- Psalm 2: The Lord is King (Colin Buchanan/Colin Buchanan)
- Psalm 2: While The Nations Rage (Rich Mullins/Rich Mullins)
Scripture Songs
- Psalm 2:1-2: Why do the nations so furiously rage together? (George Frederick Handel)
- Psalm 2:3: Let us break their bonds asunder (George Frederick Handel)
- Psalm 2:4: He that dwelleth in heaven (George Frederick Handel)
- Psalm 2:9: Thou shalt break them (George Frederick Handel)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Bible in Song)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Jeff Peters)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Michael E. Owens)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Ryan Hadden and Friends)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Will Gray)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 (Zach Lange)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 Song “Blessed are all they that put their trust in him\” (KJV) (Spiritually Inspired Songs)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2 Word for Word (Zac Fitzsimmons Music)
- Psalm 2: Psalm 2: Why Do the Heathen Rage? (The Rockin’ Psalms)
- Psalm 2: Psalm Two (Tim Ophus)