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Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
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Rejoice with Trembling
Commentators explain that serving God involves a unique blend of emotions. It is a joyful celebration of His salvation and goodness, but this joy is balanced with a deep, reverential awe ('trembling') for His absolute power and holiness. This isn't a contradiction, but a healthy spiritual posture that combines gladness with humility.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Serve the Lord with fear - With reverence, and with deep apprehensions of the consequences of not serving and obeying him. That is,…
19th Century
Baptist
Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
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16th Century
Protestant
David, having, as a preacher of God's judgments, set forth the vengeance God would take upon his enemies, now proceeds, as a prophet and teacher, t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Serve the Lord with fear Not the creature, neither more, nor besides, nor with the Creator; God and mammon cannot bo…
Whatever we rejoice in, in this world, it must always be with trembling, because of the uncertainty of all things in it. To welcome Jesus Christ, a…
13th Century
Catholic
Having finished the psalm in which he described the state and progress of the human race in general, the psalmist now moves on to a speci…
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