4 From his throne in heaven the Lord laughsand mocks their feeble plans.
5 Then he warns them in angerand terrifies them with his fury.
6 “On Zion, my sacred hill,” he says,“I have installed my king.”
7 “I will announce,” says the king, “what the Lord has declared.He said to me: ‘You are my son;today I have become your father.
8 Ask, and I will give you all the nations;the whole earth will be yours.
9 You will break them with an iron rod;you will shatter them in pieces like a clay pot.’ ”
10 Now listen to this warning, you kings;learn this lesson, you rulers of the world: