³⁰ But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.

¹² Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,

²⁸ Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

⁷ Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.

²² Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

¹¹ Who knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

¹⁵ Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

⁶ When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.

¹⁶ David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

¹² David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

⁹ David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?

⁴ Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, And glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed."