Salmi 29:1-8

1 Salmo di Davide DATE al Signore, o figliuoli de’ potenti, Date al Signore gloria e forza.

2 Date al Signore la gloria dovuta al suo Nome; Adorate il Signore nel magnifico santuario.

3 La voce del Signore è sopra le acque; L’Iddio di gloria tuona; Il Signore è sopra le grandi acque.

4 La voce del Signore è con potenza; La voce del Signore è con magnificenza.

5 La voce del Signore rompe i cedri; E il Signore spezza i cedri del Libano;

6 E li fa saltellar come un vitello; Il Libano stesso, e Sirion, come il figlio d’un liocorno.

7 La voce del Signore sparge, a guisa di schegge, fiamme di fuoco.

8 La voce del Signore fa tremare il deserto; Il Signore fa tremare il deserto di Cades.

Salmi 29:1-8 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.