Psalms — Chapter 99
GOD, enthroned on cherubim, is sovereign,peoples tremble,aGOD, enthroned on cherubim, is sovereign, / peoples tremble Clauses transposed for clarity. the earth quakes.
GOD is great in Zion,and exalted above all peoples.
They praise Your name as great and awesome;[God] is holy!
Mighty rulerbMighty ruler Meaning of Heb. uncertain. who loves justice,it was You who established equity,You who worked righteous judgment in Jacob.
Exalt the ETERNAL our Godand bow down to the divine footstool;[God] is holy!
Moses and Aaron among God’s priests,Samuel, among those who call on the divine name—when they called to GOD,they were answered.
[God] spoke to them in a pillar of cloud;they obeyed those decrees,the law given to them.
Our ETERNAL God, You answered them;You were a forgiving God for them,but You exacted retribution for their misdeeds.
Exalt the ETERNAL our God,and bow toward God’s holy hill,for the ETERNAL our God is holy.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Hadith (An-Nawawi 13)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
Mahabharata 5.1517
“One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself.”
Dhammapada 10:1
“All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”