^2:27 Those people will rule the nations with iron scepters and shatter them like pottery.

Those people will rule the nations with iron scepters and shatter them like pottery.

The strong rule with a rod of iron also comes from the Messianic Psalm 2. The image of a broken pottery is equated to rejection of the word of God several times in the Old Testament. Isaiah uses it in Isaiah 30:12-15. Jeremiah shows this act as a symbol of condemnation of this rejection in Jeremiah 19:10-13 where not only the rejection is bad but the people worshipped other gods!