Psalms Chapter 2 verse 9 Holy Bible
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
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They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
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Thou shalt break them with a sceptre of iron, as a potter's vessel thou shalt dash them in pieces.
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Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
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Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
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You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
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Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. It is said that these words, and those of the next clause, "cannot describe the mild rule of Christ" (Rosenmuller, Do Wette, Hupfeld, etc.). But the objectors forget that there is a severe, as well as a mild, side to the dealings of God with his human creatures. St. Paul notes in the same verse both the "severity" and the "goodness" of God (Romans 11:22). Christ, though "the Prince of Peace," "came to send a sword upon the earth" (Matthew 10:34). As the appointed Judge of men, he takes vengeance on the wicked, while he rewards the righteous (Luke 3:17; Matthew 25:46). Nay, St. John, in the Apocalypse, declares that "out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations. and "ye shall rule them with a rod of iron" (Revelation 19:15; comp. 2:27; 12:5). So, with respect to the other clause of the verse - Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel - it is to be noted that there is a similar threat made by the Lord of hosts against Jerusalem in the Book of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 19:11), and that under the new covenant the same is threatened in the Revelation (Revelation 2:27). In truth, both covenants are alike in denouncing the extreme of God's wrath on impenitent sinners, such as those here spoken of.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Thou shalt break.--The LXX. translated, "thou shalt pasture them," understanding by the rod (Heb., shevet), as in Leviticus 27:32, a shepherd's crook. (Comp. Ezekiel 20:37; Micah 7:14.) Elsewhere the rod is a sceptre (Psalm 125:3); in Proverbs 22:15 it is a rod of correction. The use to be made of it--to dash the nations in pieces, as one breaks a potter's vessel--points to the latter of these significations here."Then shalt thou bring full low . . .