Fear the Lord, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no lack of anything.
Parallel translations
- WEB Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.
- KJV O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
- BSB Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
- NKJV Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.
- NLT Fear the Lord, you his godly people, for those who fear him will have all they need.
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Quick answer
Those who fear the Lord lack nothing they truly need.
Overview
David calls God's holy ones to reverent fear, assuring them that such fear leads to provision rather than want. The Lord supplies the needs of those devoted to him. This confidence is deepened in Christ, through whom God promises to supply every need of his people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- Phil 4:19My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
- Ps 23:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- Luke 12:30–32For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
- Ps 31:23Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
- Ps 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- Rev 15:3–4They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Gen 22:12He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
- 1 Cor 3:22–23whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
- Isa 8:13–14Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
- Ps 22:23You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
- Hos 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
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