Hear the turmoil of the nations

Hear the turmoil of the nations. Carl P. Daw, Jr.* (1944). This paraphrase of Psalm 2 was initially published in Volume I of Praise, Lament, and Prayer: A Psalter for Singing (2018). It also appears in Voices Together (Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2000). Carl P. Daw, Jr. completed this three-volume collection in 2022 and stated that these paraphrases aim to ‘give us the ability to interpret the psalm text anew, providing it with immediacy and application that it otherwise might not have’ (Daw, 2018, p. v).   Biblically, Psalm 2 does not have an author prescribed in the text itself, though Acts 4: 25 attributes the words to David. In Acts 4, Peter and John find themselves in...

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