Psalms 33:8 - Exposition

Let all the earth fear the Lord. The righteous alone have a right to "praise" God (see Psalms 33:1 ), but "all the earth"— i.e. all mankind—may be called upon to "fear" him. He is an object of awe and true "godly fear" to godly men; to the ungodly he is an object of terror and servile fear. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. Here again, as so often, the second hemistich merely echoes the first.