Psalms 29 Footnotes
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Ps 29 This praise psalm extols the power and majesty of the Lord by telling of his powerful control of the weather. The psalm also countered Canaanite beliefs; the location of the storm was Lebanon and Syria, the domains of the storm-god Baal. It was Yahweh, not Baal, who “flashes flames of fire” (v. 7). In the Canaanite religious texts, Baal caused the storms with a sevenfold peal of thunder; but in this psalm we are told seven times that it was “the voice of the LORD” (or the voice of Yahweh).
29:5-6 Lebanon and Sirion are mountains north of Israel, the latter being Mount Hermon. The poetic language of skipping refers to earthquakes.