“The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.”
Psalm 99 opens with God's kingship: "The LORD is king; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!" The rule of God causes trembling and quaking. The cherubim emphasize the king's throne as cosmic and holy.
Church Fathers on Psalms 99:1
1. Beloved brethren, it ought already to be known to you, as sons of the Church, and well instructed in the school of Christ through all the books of our ancient fathers, who wrote the words of God and the great things of God, that their wish was to consult for our good, who were to live at this period, believers in Christ; who, at a seasonable time came unto us, the first time, in humility; at the second, destined to come in exaltation....For thus it is said in the Psalms:…
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