Psalms 29:1-10

1 Praise the Lord, you angels; praise the Lord's glory and power.
2 Praise the Lord for the glory of his name; worship the Lord because he is holy.
3 The Lord's voice is heard over the sea. The glorious God thunders; the Lord thunders over the ocean.
4 The Lord's voice is powerful; the Lord's voice is majestic.
5 The Lord's voice breaks the trees; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes the land of Lebanon dance like a calf and Mount Hermon jump like a baby bull.
7 The Lord's voice makes the lightning flash.
8 The Lord's voice shakes the desert; the Lord shakes the Desert of Kadesh.
9 The Lord's voice shakes the oaks and strips the leaves off the trees. In his Temple everyone says, "Glory to God!"
10 The Lord controls the flood. The Lord will be King forever.

Psalms 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.

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