Psalm 2:11
Good News Translation
Serve the LORD with fear; tremble

New Revised Standard Version
Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling 12 kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him.

Contemporary English Version
Serve and honor the LORD; be glad and tremble.

New American Bible
Serve the LORD with fear; exult with trembling, Accept correction lest he become angry and you perish along the way when his anger suddenly blazes up. Blessed are all who take refuge in him!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

Serve

Psalm 89:7 God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

Hebrews 12:28,29 Therefore, receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace: whereby let us serve, pleasing God, with fear and reverence. . . .

rejoice

Psalm 95:1-8 Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. . . .

Psalm 97:1 For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.

Psalm 99:1 A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.

Psalm 119:120 Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

Hebrews 4:1,2 Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting. . . .

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Context
The Triumphant Messiah
10And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth. 11Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.12Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. [13] When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:23
And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

Psalm 5:7
But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

Psalm 119:119
I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:120
Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

Psalm 2:10
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