“Let us break their bands
And cast from us their cords.”
Then in verses 4-5 a priest, one who knows the plan of God, gives answer:
He that sitteth in the heavens laugheth;
The lord is scornful of them.
Presently he will speak to them in his anger,
And terrify them in his rage:
“I, on my part, have set my king
Upon Zion, my holy hill.”
And now it is for the king himself to add a final authoritative word concerning Yahwe’s plan, for to the king himself Yahwe had actually spoken: