1 Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples?
2 Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks, The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers:
3 "Let's get free of God! Cast loose from Messiah!"
4 Heaven-throned God breaks out laughing. At first he's amused at their presumption;
5 Then he gets good and angry. Furiously, he shuts them up:
6 "Don't you know there's a King in Zion? A coronation banquet Is spread for him on the holy summit."
7 Let me tell you what GOD said next. He said, "You're my son, And today is your birthday.
8 What do you want? Name it: Nations as a present? continents as a prize?
9 You can command them all to dance for you, Or throw them out with tomorrow's trash."
10 So, rebel-kings, use your heads; Upstart-judges, learn your lesson:
11 Worship GOD in adoring embrace, Celebrate in trembling awe.
12 Kiss Messiah! Your very lives are in danger, you know; His anger is about to explode, But if you make a run for God--you won't regret it! A David psalm, when he escaped for his life from Absalom, his son.