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Acts 4:25

David
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23 On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

24 When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

26 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

27 In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
KJV
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
WEB
who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
ASV
who by the Holy Spirit, [by] the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things?
DARBY
who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain things?
BLB
having spoken by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples devise vain things?
ÅB
du som ved din tjener Davids munn sa: Hvorfor fnyste hedningene og grundet folkene på det som fåfengt er?
OTB
du talte ved Den Hellige Ånd gjennom din tjener, vår far David:
‘Hvorfor raser folkeslagene
og planlegger folkene forgjeves?
B1930
du som ved din tjener Davids munn sa: Hvorfor fnyste hedningene og grundet folkene på det som fåfengt er?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 2:1–6

    Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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  • Acts 1:16

    “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

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  • Acts 2:30

    But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

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