Psalm 19:9
9 The fear [yir'ah] of the LORD [Yahovah] is clean, [tahowr] enduring
[`amad] for ever: [`ad] the judgments [mishpat] of
the LORD [Yahovah] are true ['emeth] and righteous [tsadaq]
altogether. [yachad] KJV-Interlinear
9 The
fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are
true; they are righteous altogether. NASB
Fear, ‘yirah,’ means
fear, terror, awe, reverence. It is the
attitude that one demonstrates toward something that is far above and beyond
oneself.
Clean, ‘tahowr,’ means
pure, without defect, without flaw, morally and ceremonially purified.
Enduring, ‘amad,’ means
established without need for re-establishment.
And so the fear or
awesome respect that is proper and necessary from man toward God, is something
that is based in truth, is absent of self-righteousness or sin or defect or
corruption in any form. And it endures
or is established forever.
It is not something that
needs to be set and re-set. It is not something
that will ever pass away. Even as our
current universe will one day pass away, but not of its own accord, but by
means of the active will of God, that passing and re-creation of an entire
universe will not impact truth, or our attitude toward God, or our knowledge or
understanding within us. Those
components of our essence are established firmly and will never leave us, which
simply means that we as believers will never be destroyed.
Judgments, ‘mishpat,’
means decisions or verdicts that are arrived at by means of judicial means.
True, ‘emeth,’ means
right, correct, legitimately accurate, stable, certain.
Righteous, ‘tsadaq,’ to
cleanse, just, clean, perfect.
Altogether, ‘yachad,’
means together as one unit, inseparable, not independent of each other.
And so the judgments of
God are true and correct, not arbitrary, not frivolous, but are based on strong
and accurate and overwhelming evidence.
His decisions are certain and not subject to question. They are perfect and consistent since the
beginning of time and prior, and forever into the future.
God does not have one policy
for one period of history, and another policy or set of decisions for another
period of history. God treats every
person throughout history, exactly the same.
God treats every event with the same consistency.
God is never biased,
never random. God does what God does
based on that consistent and rational plan, which plan was established in
eternity past, and God has never wavered from that plan.
God knows all that will happen,
and when it will happen, and God deals with every event and person with complete
fairness and objectivity and consistency.
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