Psalm 2 is clearly about the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ of the Lord. The King on Zion is said to rule with an iron scepter and dash the nations to pieces like pottery. In several places in the book of Isaiah and in the book of Jeremiah, the Lord is compared to the potter, who can do with the potsherd as he pleases. He is our Maker, our Creator, our Potter, who has found the clay pot to be wanting, breaks it to pieces, and can form a different pot. Take the lesson of the potter's house in Jeremiah 18.
The sinful we must be broken to pieces. The sacrifice that God is pleased with and does not despise is the broken spirit, the broken and contrite heart (Psalm 51:17). We must pray like the tax collector in Jesus's parable: He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." (Luke 18:13). Indeed, Lord, I am a sinner. I must be broken. Forgive me and renew me.
When we are broken, God will create us anew. He will make us into a new pottery. "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come." (2 Corinthians 5:17). We will be born again, born of the Spirit and water, so that we can be children of God, worthy of citizenship in the heavenly kingdom of God. We from all nations, all languages, all peoples can be made into new potteries, new beings.
Then, the nations will indeed be the Anointed One's inheritance, as spoken about in Psalm 2:8.
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