God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

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;

for also our God [is] a consuming fire.

Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation.

For a great God [is] Jehovah, And a great king over all gods.

Whose is the sea, and He made it, And His hands formed the dry land.

For He [is] our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

Jehovah hath reigned, The earth is joyful, many isles rejoice.

Jehovah hath reigned, peoples tremble, The Inhabitant of the cherubs, the earth shaketh.

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

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who [speaketh] from heaven,