{"id":8059,"date":"2024-03-10T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:18:51","slug":"psalm-649-all-men-shall-fear-and-shall-declare-the-work-of-god-for-they-shall-wisely-consider-his-doing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=8059","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 64:9: “All men shall fear, \/ And shall declare the work of God; \/ For they shall wisely consider His doing.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are 2 Hebrew words for fear<\/em> used in the Old Testament: pachad<\/em>, meaning terror or dread; and yirah<\/em>, meaning piety and reverence connected with love and hope, something like what children feel for their parents. David does not use the word for terror and dread here, but rather the word for reverence and love. It is difficult for our 21st century mindset to even associate the words fear<\/em> and love<\/em> with each other. But that is what C.S. Lewis was trying to capture in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em> when Mr. Beaver was describing Aslan (the king of Narnia and a lion) to the human children who had never heard of or met him before: “‘Safe?’ said Mr. Beaver . . . ‘Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.'”<\/p>\n

David was saying in this psalm that God is good and loving, and also that He is much different than us\u2014the created, fallen beings of humanity. When we worship our Creator, we are recognizing that He is not just better than us, but that He is “other” than us. Psalm 2:11 repeats this idea: “Worship the LORD with fear, \/ And rejoice with trembling.” We rejoice because He is our good, loving, heavenly Father; and we tremble because He is also the Holy Creator. He is the mighty Lion of Judah. He is not tame, but He is good.<\/p>\n

“LORD, we desire to know You better today than we did yesterday. Please reveal more of Yourself to us as we walk with You this day.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Psalms 64 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup> Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2<\/sup> Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3<\/sup> Who whet their tongue like a sword, and <\/em>bend their bows to shoot <\/em>their arrows, even <\/em>bitter words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4<\/sup> That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5<\/sup> They encourage themselves in <\/em>an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6<\/sup> They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought <\/em>of every one of them <\/em>, and the heart, is <\/em>deep.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7<\/sup> But God shall shoot at them with <\/em>an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8<\/sup> So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9<\/sup> And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10<\/sup> The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are 2 Hebrew words for fear used in the Old Testament: pachad, meaning terror or dread; and yirah, meaning piety and reverence connected with love and hope, something like what children feel for their parents. David does not use the word for terror and dread here, but rather the word for reverence and love. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16560,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions\/16560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}