Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
⛓ Read Psalm 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Why do the nations rage (ethne)?' — Rev's 'the nations were angry (orgisthesan)' directly cites the raging-nations of Ps 2:1, framing the seventh-trumpet judgment as Ps 2 fulfilled. LXX ephryaxan ethne; Rev recasts the verb but the nations-rage motif is unmistakable.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The whole city is thrown into uproar and rushes together in confusion; why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain. The raging Gentile mob set against the Lord's work fits the psalm's tumult of the nations. Faint, contested.
Low confidence