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The Triumphant Messiah

Psalms 2:9

In 11 translations

BSB
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”LXX You will rule them or You will shepherd themCited in Revelation 2:27; see also Revelation 12:5 and Revelation 19:15.
KJV
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
WEB
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
ASV
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
LSV
You rule them with a scepter of iron, || You crush them as a vessel of a potter.”
YLT
Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
DBY
Thou shalt break them with a sceptre of iron, as a potter's vessel thou shalt dash them in pieces.
DRC
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
GNV
Thou shalt krush them with a scepter of yron, and breake them in pieces like a potters vessell.
JPS
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'
LXXE
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.Gr. tend them as a shepherd. Rev. 2. 27.

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Original-language editions

WLC
תְּ֭רֹעֵם בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט בַּרְזֶ֑ל כִּכְלִ֖י יוֹצֵ֣ר תְּנַפְּצֵֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ποιμανεῖς αὐτοὺς ἐν ῥάβδῳ σιδηρᾷ, ὡς σκεῦος κεραμέως συντρίψεις αὐτούς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 2:26–27And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations. He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from…
  • 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.
  • Psalms 89:23I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
  • 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.”
  • Psalms 21:8–9Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You. You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will…
  • 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…
  • Psalms 110:5–6The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath. He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
  • 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…
  • Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
  • Isaiah 60:12For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.

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