Psalm 2:10
Good News Translation
Now listen to this warning, you kings; learn this lesson, you rulers of the world:

New Revised Standard Version
Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Be smart, all you rulers, and pay close attention.

New American Bible
And now, kings, give heed; take warning, judges on earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

Be wise

Jeremiah 6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

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Psalm 45:12 And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among the people, shall entreat thy countenance.

Psalm 72:10,11 The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: . . .

Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

Isaiah 52:15 He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.

Isaiah 60:3,10,11 And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising. . . .

be instructed

Psalm 82:1-8 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods. . . .

Context
The Triumphant Messiah
9Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.11Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.…
Cross References
Proverbs 8:15
By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.

Proverbs 27:11
Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

Amos 2:3
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

Psalm 2:9
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