but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?
Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, “How can I bring the ark of God home to me?”
And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”
“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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