Psalms 14:5
There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is in the company of the righteous.
BSB
ASV
There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the righteous.
KJV
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
COMMENTARY ON PSALM 14 (390)
Such people will never learn from experience what a harsh thing it is to do wrong to the Lord's people, so bitter are they toward us as to wish to treat us like a meal of bread.… Since they are ready to swallow us raw, …
There were they in great fear,.... This, shows that they had some knowledge of God, and consciousness of guilt, which they endeavoured to banish out of their minds by their fears of punishment; and these fears men of the most atheistic principles cannot get rid of. In Psa 53:5 it is added, "where no fear was": that is, any cause or reason for it: such men are often frightened at their own shadows, afraid to be in the dark alone, as Hobbes the atheist was.
Oppressors have it not all their own way, they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of overthrow. There —where they denied God and hectored against his people; there —where they thought of peace and safety, they were made to quail. "There were they" —these very loud-mouthed, iron-handed, proud-hearted Nimrods and Herods, those heady, high-minded sinners— "there were they in great fear." A panic terror seized them: "they feared a fear, " as the Hebrew puts it; an undefinable, horrible, mysterious dread crept over them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 46:5God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
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For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house…
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Psalms 112:2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
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I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.