Psalms 99:1
LORD reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits [above] the cherubim, let the earth be moved.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
In Context
2LORD is great in Zion, and he is high above all the peoples.
Cross References
Exodus 25:22And there I will meet with thee. And I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment to the sons of Isra
1 Chronicles 16:30Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it cannot be moved.
Psalms 2:11Serve LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psalms 21:8Thy hand will find out all thine enemies. Thy right hand will find out those who hate thee.
Psalms 80:2Stir up thy might before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, and come to save us.
Psalms 93:1LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty. LORD is clothed with strength; he has girded himself with it. The world also is established that it cannot be moved.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 99:1
Still we are celebrating the glories of the kingdom of God among men, and are called upon to praise him, as in the foregoing psalms; but those psalms looked forward to the times of the gospel, and prophesied of the graces and comforts of those times; this psalm seems to dwell more upon the Old-Testament dispensation and the manifestation of God's glory and grace in that. The Jews were not, in expectation of the Messiah's kingdom and the evangelical worship, to neglect the divine regimen they were then under, and… Read the whole commentary →