Psalms 29:3-11

3 The voice of the LORD rolls over the water. The God of glory thunders. The LORD shouts over raging water.

4 The voice of the LORD is powerful. The voice of the LORD is majestic.

5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. The LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He makes Lebanon skip along like a calf and Mount Sirion like a wild ox.

7 The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.

8 The voice of the LORD makes the wilderness tremble. The LORD makes the wilderness of Kadesh tremble.

9 The voice of the LORD splits the oaks and strips [the trees of] the forests bare. Everyone in his temple is saying, "Glory!"

10 The LORD sat enthroned over the flood. The LORD sits enthroned as king forever.

11 The LORD will give power to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.

Psalms 29:3-11 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.