Oratio: The Lord Reigns; Let the Peoples Tremble!

For today’s Oratio, Rev. Jonathan Fisk meditates on Psalm 99.

The Lord Our God Is Holy

99 The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble!
    He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
²The Lord is great in Zion;
    he is exalted over all the peoples.
³Let them praise your great and awesome name!
    Holy is he!
⁴The King in his might loves justice.^[a]
    You have established equity;
you have executed justice
    and righteousness in Jacob.
⁵Exalt the Lord our God;
    worship at his footstool!
    Holy is he!

⁶Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel also was among those who called upon his name.
    They called to the Lord, and he answered them.
⁷In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them;
    they kept his testimonies
    and the statute that he gave them.

⁸O Lord our God, you answered them;
    you were a forgiving God to them,
    but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
⁹Exalt the Lord our God,
    and worship at his holy mountain;
    for the Lord our God is holy!