Psalms 2:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.””
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“You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 2:9 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 21:8Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
- 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.
- 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 13:14I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”
- 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.
- Daniel 2:45And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
- Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
- 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 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.
- Revelation 19:15And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).