Psalm 96:9
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,....
See Gill on "Psalms 29:2", in this and the three preceding verses there is a manifest allusion to the form of addresses made to kings in the eastern nations; who being arrayed, and seated in a majestic manner, with all the marks of royal honour and dignity about them, whom their subjects approach with ascriptions of glory to them; bringing presents in their hands, and bowing down to the ground before them, as the word {r} for "worship" signifies; expressing the utmost awe and reverence of them, as in the next clause:
fear before him, all the earth; or, as the Targum,
"all the inhabitants of the earth;''
it is the duty of all men to fear the Lord; but none can fear him aright without his grace, or an heart given them to fear him: this respects the latter day, when the Jews shall seek the Lord, and fear him and his goodness; when all nations shall fear and worship him; when, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, the name of the Lord shall be great and tremendous among the Gentiles; see Hosea 3:5.
{r} wwxtvh "incurvate vos", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "prosternite vos", Tigurine version.