³⁰ and David is not able to go before it to seek God, for he hath been afraid because of the sword of the messenger of Jehovah.

¹² `And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

²⁸ wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

²⁹ for also our God `is' a consuming fire.

⁷ Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee.

²² Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

¹²⁰ Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!

¹¹ Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?

¹⁵ Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

⁶ Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

²¹ Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

¹⁶ and David lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, and David falleth, and the elders, covered with sackcloth, on their faces.

¹² And David feareth God on that day, saying, `How do I bring in unto me the ark of God?'

⁹ and David feareth Jehovah on that day, and saith, `How doth the ark of Jehovah come in unto me?'

⁴ who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone `art' kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'