Nations Without a Prayer

Psalm 2 is familiar to me. The words from Young’s Literal Translation catch my imagination.

Psalm 2:1-2 (YLT)
Why have nations tumultuously assembled?
And do peoples meditate vanity?

Station themselves do kings of the earth,
And princes have been united together,
Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah.

A tumultuous assembly — unlikely allies.
Meditating vanity — bringing their private agendas.

Will they meet with success? Probably not.

They ignore God at their own risk. They haven’t a prayer!