תהלים 14:5

Hebrew Modern Translation

שם פחדו פחד כי אלהים בדור צדיק׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
פחדו פחד כי-אלהים בדור צדיק

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
שָׁ֤ם ׀ פָּ֣חֲדוּ פָ֑חַד כִּֽי־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים בְּדֹ֣ור צַדִּֽיק ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
שָׁם ׀ פָּחֲדוּ פָחַד כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִים בְּדוֹר צַדִּֽיק ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were: etc. Heb. they feared a fear, Psalms 53:5, Exodus 15:16, Esther 8:7, Proverbs 1:26, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 28:1

God: Psalms 46:5, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 43:1, Isaiah 43:2, Matthew 1:23

the generation: Psalms 22:30, Psalms 24:6, Psalms 73:15, Psalms 112:2, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:5 - General Genesis 50:15 - Joseph 1 Samuel 14:15 - there was trembling 2 Kings 7:6 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 23:13 - she looked Psalms 23:4 - for thou Song of Solomon 6:10 - clear Mark 5:15 - and they Revelation 6:16 - and from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There were they in great fear,.... This, shows that they had some knowledge of God, and consciousness of guilt, which they endeavoured to banish out of their minds by their fears of punishment; and these fears men of the most atheistic principles cannot get rid of. In Psalms 53:5 it is added, "where no fear was": that is, any cause or reason for it: such men are often frightened at their own shadows, afraid to be in the dark alone, as Hobbes the atheist was. The wicked flee when no man pursues, and are chased by the sound of a shaken leaf; see

Proverbs 28:1; or where there was no fear of God before their eyes, nor on their hearts, as well as no regard to men; or where before there were perfect peace and security, and no apprehension or dread of any calamity, ruin, and destruction;

for God [is] in the generation of the righteous, or "of the righteous One" b; which some understood of Jesus Christ the righteous: and though the age or generation in which he lived was a very wicked one, yet God was with him; as was seen by the doctrines he taught, and the miracles he wrought; and which filled the Jews with panic fears, lest the Romans should come and take away their place and nation: but rather this is to be understood of the generation of the saints, who are righteous through the righteousness of Christ, and have the new man in them, which is created in righteousness and true holiness, and live soberly and righteously; these are sometimes called the generation of the upright, and of the children of God, and of them that seek him,

Psalms 112:2; in the midst of these God is, among them he affords his gracious presence, and is with them, for their help and assistance against their enemies: and as this makes them fearless of them, it fills their enemies with dread and terror; see Joshua 2:9. The Targum renders it,

"the Word of the Lord is in the generation of the righteous.''

b צדיק "justi", Montanus, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There were they in great fear - Margin, as in Hebrew, “they feared a fear.” The idea is, that they were in great terror or consternation. They were not calm in their belief that there was no God. They endeavored to be. They wished to satisfy themselves that there was no God, and that they had nothing to dread. But they could not do this. In spite of all their efforts, there was such proof of his existence, and of his being the friend of the righteous, and consequently the enemy of such as they themselves were, as to fill their minds with alarm. People cannot, by an effort of will, get rid of the evidence that there is a God. In the face of all their attempts to convince themselves of this, the demonstration of his existence will press upon them, and will often fill their minds with terror.

For God is in the generation of the righteous - The word “generation” here, as applied to the righteous, seems to refer to them as a “race,” or as a “class” of people. Compare Psalms 24:6; Psalms 73:15; Psalms 112:2. It commonly in the Scriptures refers to a certain age or duration, as it is used by us, reckoning an age or generation as about thirty or forty years (compare Job 42:16); but in the use of the term before us the idea of an “age” is dropped, and the righteous are spoken of merely as a “class” or “race” of persons. The idea here is, that there were such manifest proofs that God was among the righteous, and that he was their friend, that the wicked could not resist the force of that evidence, however much they might desire it, and however much they might wish to arrive at the conclusion that there was no God. The evidence that he was among the righteous would, of course, alarm them, because the very fact that he was the friend of the righteous demonstrated that he must be the enemy of the wicked, and, of course, that they were exposed to his wrath.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 14:5. There were they in great fear — This is a manifest allusion to the history of the Canaanitish nations; they were struck with terror at the sight of the Israelites, and by this allusion the psalmist shows that a destruction similar to that which fell upon them, should fall on the Babylonians. Several of the versions add, from Psalms 53:5, "Where no fear was." They were struck with terror, where no real cause of terror existed. Their fears had magnified their danger.

For God is in the generation — They feared the Israelites, because they knew that the Almighty God was among them.