Tommy Walker - The Fear of The Lord Lyrics

"The Fear of The Lord" builds its entire structure around a single Old Testament proverb, that reverence for God is the beginning of wisdom, repeating it as the song's foundation before drawing out its consequences. Each verse pairs that opening claim with a short list of what follows from it, life, hope, meaning, blessing, and joy, treating reverence not as fear in the sense of terror but as the starting point for a fuller life. The refrain translates that reverence into physical posture, calling for worship and bowing down rather than only intellectual agreement with the idea. The chorus shifts from instruction to description, naming God's works and ways as glorious, righteous, faithful, and just, giving specific reasons why eternal and reverent praise belongs to Him. Structurally the song alternates between a proverb-based verse and a bodily response, letting a congregation move between understanding why reverence matters and physically enacting it through worship.