Psalm 29:1-10

1 Ein Psalm; von David. Gebet Jehova, ihr Söhne der Starken, gebet Jehova Herrlichkeit und Stärke!

2 Gebet Jehova die Herrlichkeit seines Namens; betet Jehova an in heiliger Pracht!

3 Die Stimme Jehovas ist auf den Wassern; der Gott der Herrlichkeit donnert, Jehova auf großen Wassern.

4 Die Stimme Jehovas ist gewaltig, die Stimme Jehovas ist majestätisch.

5 Die Stimme Jehovas zerbricht Zedern, ja, Jehova zerbricht die Zedern des Libanon;

6 und er macht sie hüpfen wie ein Kalb, den Libanon und Sirjon wie einen jungen Wildochsen.

7 Die Stimme Jehovas sprüht Feuerflammen aus;

8 Die Stimme Jehovas erschüttert die Wüste, Jehova erschüttert die Wüste Kades.

9 Die Stimme Jehovas macht Hindinnen kreißen, und entblößt die Wälder; und in seinem Tempel spricht alles: Herrlichkeit!

10 Jehova thront auf der Wasserflut, und Jehova thront als König ewiglich.

Psalm 29:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 29

\\<>\\. In the Vulgate Latin version is added, "at the finishing of the tabernacle"; suggesting that this psalm was composed at that time, and on that occasion; not at the finishing of the tabernacle by Moses, but at the finishing of the tent or tabernacle which David made for the ark in Zion, 2Sa 6:17. The title in the Arabic version is, ``a prophecy concerning the incarnation, ark, and tabernacle.'' In the Septuagint version, from whence the Vulgate seems to have taken the clause, it is, at the "exodion", "exit", or "going out of the tabernacle"; that is, of the feast of tabernacles; and which was the eighth day of the feast, and was called true, which word the Septuagint renders exodion, the word here used, Le 23:36, Nu 29:35; though it was on the first of the common days of this feast that this psalm was sung, as Maimonides {w} says. Some think it was composed when the psalmist was in a thunder storm, or had lately been in one, which he in a very beautiful manner describes. Kimchi thinks it refers to the times of the Messiah; and it may indeed be very well interpreted of the Gospel, and is very suitable to Gospel times. {w} Hilchot Tamidin, c. 10. s. 11.