More of my “aesthetic translations” of Psalms. <\/p>\n
\nWhy do nations rage,\n And whole countries roar uselessly?\nKings of the earth posture,\n And elites plot\nAgainst Yahweh and against his Messiah.\n\nSaying:\n \nLet us tear off their bonds\n And hurl away their cords!\n\n\nThe one sitting in the heavens laughs;\n The Lord mocks them!\nThen he speaks to them in anger ---\n His fiery wrath terrifies them ---\n \nSaying,\n \nAs for me, I have set my King\n On Zion, my holy hill.\n\n\nI proclaim to the world Yahweh's words. He spoke to me,\n\nSaying, \n\nYou are my son!\n Today I have begotten you!\n Ask of me!\n\nI will give nations for your inheritance!\n You will possess the ends of the earth!\nYou will break them with a rod of iron!\n You will shatter them like pottery!\n\n\nAnd now understand, kings,\n Correct yourselves, masters of the earth.\nServe Yahweh with fear,\n Exult and tremble, kiss the Son,\nLest he be angry \n And you perish in your steps,\n Because his anger burns quickly.\n\nHe favors all who seek refuge in him!\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Translation of Psalm 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,70],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-psalms","has-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}