# Псалми 33:10 (Біблія в перекладі Івана Огієнка (1962))

> Бійтеся Господа, всі святії Його, бо ті, що бояться Його, недостатку не мають!

## Що це означає

Look at the shape of this verse. It splits into a command and a reason. First: "Fear the LORD, all His saints" — that's the command. Then: "because those who fear Him have no lack" — that's the reason you'd want to obey it. It's structured like a parent saying, "Eat your vegetables — they'll make you strong." God is giving you both the instruction and the payoff in the same breath.

Two words are easy to skate past. "Saints" here doesn't mean the extra-holy, halo-wearing elite. The Hebrew word just means "set-apart ones" — it's every ordinary person who belongs to God, not a special club within the club. And "fear" doesn't mean cowering terror, the way you'd fear a mugger. It's the trembling respect a son has for a father he deeply loves and doesn't want to disappoint — the same posture Abraham had on the mountain with Isaac. This is relational awe, not dread.

Now notice what "lack" means. It's a wide word — not just money, but any kind of need. The claim being made is sweeping: God's people, precisely because they take Him seriously, end up with what they

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Біблія в перекладі Івана Огієнка, Українське Біблійне Товариство (CC BY-SA 4.0)