I will declare the decree;
Yahwe said to me: “You are my son;”
I this day have adopted you.
Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance,
And the entire earth your possession.
You can beat them with an iron rod;
You can break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Yahwe’s decree, bestowing such power over the nations upon Israel’s king, having thus been made known, it only remained to advise the nations to make humble submission to Yahwe and to Yahwe’s representative upon the throne in Zion:
And now, O kings, be prudent;
Take warning, ye judges of the earth.