O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Here to the utterance of the voice, and the hastening with the feet into God's presence (Psalms 95:1), there is added the bending of the knee. This attitude is only introduced as the natural and instinctive expression of the loving reverence of the "heart" (). The bowed person and the bended knee are the token of humility, unreserved surrender, and self-dedicating obedience. Yahweh is termed by Israel "our Maker," as being the Creator alike of the individuals of the people as men, as also of the people as a nation. is the original passage - "Is not He thy Father ... hath He not made thee, and established thee?" (cf. Isaiah 44:1).

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