Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 99:1

“The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.”

Psalms 99:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 99:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 99. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 97:1The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
  • Exodus 25:22And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will gi…
  • Psalms 80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
  • Psalms 97:4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
  • Psalms 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
  • Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
  • Jeremiah 50:46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
  • Psalms 96:10Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
  • Psalms 2:11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
  • Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
  • Psalms 18:10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
  • Revelation 6:14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
  • Luke 19:27But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
  • Psalms 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 19:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 118:6Psalms 30:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.