876 verses about Awe

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

“Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.

There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.

that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

Yahweh’s voice is powerful. Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.

Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.