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I. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT TREMBLE AT GOD'S WORD.

1. Who they are not.

(1) They are not a proud people: they do not cry, "Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice? ',

(2) They are not a profane people: they neither make a mock at sin nor at God's word.

(3) They are not indifferent people.

(4) They are not a critical, sceptical people.

(5) They are not presumptuous people, who derive fictitious comfort from it.

2. Who they are.

(1) They are people who do believe that there is a Word of God.

(2) They are acquainted with God's Word.

II. WHY DO THEY TREMBLE!,

1. Because of His exceeding majesty.

2. Because of the searching power of God's Word.

3. They tremble at the word when it is in the form of threatening.

4. They tremble with fear lest they should break God's law.

5. They tremble lest they should miss the promises when they are spread out before them. We hear of some who "could not enter in because of unbelief;" and we are taken with trembling lest we should be like them.

III. WHAT DOES GOD COMPARE THEM TO? To a temple (vers. 1, 2). He prefers us to the temple; and, further, He prefers us even to the great temple of the universe, not made with human hands, which He Himself sets so much above the house that Solomon built.

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

WEB: For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be," says Yahweh: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.