Psalms Chapter 29 A Psalm by David.
1 Ascribe to the LORD, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Worship the LORD in holy array.
3 The LORD's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the LORD on many waters.
4 The LORD's voice is powerful. The LORD's voice is full of majesty.
5 The LORD's voice breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
7 The LORD's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
8 The LORD's voice shakes the wilderness. The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The LORD's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
10 The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.
11 The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.
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Psalms Chapter 29 A Psalm by David. Guide
This is a wonderful picture of a storm, viewed from the standpoint of one who is supremely conscious of Jehovah. The great name occurs oftener in this psalm than in any other in this first book, being found no less than eighteen times. Therein is discovered the key to the whole movement. Once the name suggestive of wonder-working might is used - The God of glory thundereth.
For the rest, this God is seen to be Jehovah of the trusting soul.
From this outlook, all the sublimity and majesty are seen under the control of love, and the singer finds occasion for the highest form of praise in the presence of a storm which otherwise might have filled the heart with terror. The storm is described in the central part of the song (3-9). To the description there is a prelude calling on "the sons of God" to praise (1, 2). In the epilogue (10-11), the storm seems to have subsided and the psalmist sings of the one supreme impression produced. Over all the flood Jehovah sat as King. The deductions are simple and yet full of beauty. Jehovah always sits as King. During the storm He will give strength to His people. Following it He will give them peace.
From "An Exposition of the Whole Bible" by G. Campbell Morgan.
Psalms Chapter 29 Commentary
Chapter Outline
- Exhortation to give glory to God.
Verses 1-11
The mighty and honourable of the earth are especially bound to honour and worship him; but, alas, few attempt to worship him in the beauty of holiness. When we come before him as the Redeemer of sinners, in repentance faith, and love, he will accept our defective services, pardon the sin that cleaves to them, and approve of that measure of holiness which the Holy Spirit enables us to exercise. We have here the nature of religious worship; it is giving to the Lord the glory due to his name. We must be holy in all our religious services, devoted to God, and to his will and glory. There is a beauty in holiness, and that puts beauty upon all acts of worship. The psalmist here sets forth God's dominion in the kingdom of nature. In the thunder, and lightning, and storm, we may see and hear his glory. Let our hearts be thereby filled with great, and high, and honourable thoughts of God, in the holy adoring of whom, the power of godliness so much consists. O Lord our God, thou art very great! The power of the lightning equals the terror of the thunder. The fear caused by these effects of the Divine power, should remind us of the mighty power of God, of man's weakness, and of the defenceless and desperate condition of the wicked in the day of judgment. But the effects of the Divine word upon the souls of men, under the power of the Holy Spirit, are far greater than those of thunder storms in the nature world. Thereby the stoutest are made to tremble, the proudest are cast down, the secrets of the heart are brought to light, sinners are converted, the savage, sensual, and unclean, become harmless, gentle, and pure. If we have heard God's voice, and have fled for refuge to the hope set before us, let us remember that children need not fear their Father's voice, when he speaks in anger to his enemies. While those tremble who are without shelter, let those who abide in his appointed refuge bless him for their security, looking forward to the day of judgment without dismay, safe as Noah in the ark.
From the "Concise Commentary on the Bible" by Matthew Henry.