“ Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ”
Serve the Lord with fear - With reverence, and with deep apprehensions of the consequences of not serving and obeying him. That is, serve him in not opposing, but in promoting his purpose of esta...
II. Messiah's Reign. Also without a title. Here we have a distinctly Messianic Ps., put in this place, possibly, as an introduction to other Messianic Pss. which follow. Messianic it is in the stri...
the LORD. Hebrew. 'eth Jehovah. App-4. (objective).
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Serve the Lord with fear - A general direction to all men. Fear God with that reverence which is due to his supreme majesty. Serve him as subject...
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Serve the Lord - instead of 'taking counsel together' to cast away the bands of Yahweh and His Messiah ( Psalms 2:2-3 ). Rejoice , х...
The historical situation of this Ps. cannot now be recovered. It may refer to some threatened rebellion of subject kings in the early days of Solomon, or to some similar movement under one of the lat...
Psalms 2:1-12 VARIOUS unsatisfactory conjectures as to a historical basis for this magnificent lyric have been made, but none succeeds in specifying events which fit with the situation painted in...
God's Son upon His Throne Psalms 2:1-12 This is one of the sublimest of the Psalms, and can find its fulfillment only in our Lord. See Acts 4:25 ; Acts 13:33 ; Hebrews 1:5 ; Hebrews 5:5 ;...
This is the psalm of Jehovah's King. It is impossible to fix the event for which it was written and to which it first referred. The wider application is perfectly patent. To whatsoever king the words...
Who can complain after so gracious, so kind, and tender an entreaty, if neglecting so great salvation, they should lose it? Gracious Lord, I would approach thee with reverence and godly fear. I would...
Serve the Lord with fear ,.... Not the creature, neither more, nor besides, nor with the Creator; God and mammon cannot both be served; nor any fictitious and nominal deities, the idols of the Genti...
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Ver. 11. Serve the Lord with fear ] Timore non servili sed amicali, with reverence and godly fear, Hebrews 12:28 . Say to Christ, as the pe...
Serve the Lord with fear That is, with reverence and an awful sense of his great and glorious majesty, rendering you careful and diligent to please him, and afraid to offend him. And rejoice Do n...
Warning to the Enemies of Messiah. 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Se...
With fear, i.e. with reverence, and an awful sense of his great and glorious majesty, as very careful and diligent to please him, and afraid to offend him. Rejoice; do not esteem his yoke your di...
The Call For Response. ‘Now therefore be wise, O you kings, Be instructed you judges of the earth, Serve YHWH with fear, And rejoice with trembling, Kiss the son, lest he be angry, And you pe...
INTRODUCTION “It is quite impossible now to say what the event was which occasioned this poem. The older interpreters referred it to David, and the attacks made upon him by the Philistines ( 2 Samue...
fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
Psalms 2 I. The Psalm opens abruptly; here is no prelude; it is an utterance of amazement, begotten in the soul and breaking from the lips of one who looks out upon the nations and generations of...
Psalms 2:1-2 . Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,...
This psalm, by a constant succession of the rabbins, is applied to Christ. If it have any bearing on David's enemies, for the eyes of prophets were often directed from objects near, to those which ar...
Why do the heathen rage? The prophetical element in the Psalm But though the poem was occasioned by some national event, we must not confine its application to that event, nor need we even supp...
EXPOSITION HERE we have again a psalm without a title, and, so far, we are left to conjecture its age and author. The Jews, however, have always regarded it as Davidical; and there is evidence...
The Divine Announcement. It is the Anointed of Jehovah, Jesus Christ Himself, who now speaks in person.
Hebrews 12:25 ; Hebrews 12:28 ; Hebrews 12:29 ; Hebrews 4:1 ; Hebrews 4:2 ; Philippians 2:12 ; Psalms 89:7 ; Psalms 9:1 ; Psalms 95:1-8
The Prefatory Psalms Psalms 1:1-6 , Psalms 2:1-12 , and Psalms 3:1-8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm....
Fear — With an awful sense of his great and glorious majesty. Rejoice — Do not esteem his yoke your dishonour and grievance; but rejoice in this inestimable grace and benefit. Trembling — This is a...