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Psalms 29:10
10The Lord sat as King at the flood; Yes, the Lord sits as King forever.
Psalms 29:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord is enthroned as King forever.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.
Context of Psalms 29:10
8The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9The voice of the Lord makes the doe labor and give birth And strips the forests bare; And in His temple all are saying, “Glory!” The Lord sat as King at the flood; Yes, the Lord sits as King forever. 11The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace.
Read all of Psalms 29Psalms 29:10 word by word
יְ֭הוָה לַמַּבּ֣וּל יָשָׁ֑ב וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב יְ֝הוָ֗ה מֶ֣לֶךְ לְעוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 29:10
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; The God of glory thunders; The Lord is over many waters.
- Psalms 65:7Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples,
- Psalms 104:6You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.
- Genesis 6:17For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.
- Genesis 8:1And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded.
- Job 38:8“Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
- Mark 4:41They were filled with great fear, and said to each other, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
- Psalms 2:6“Yet as for Me, I have anointed and firmly installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
- Psalms 10:16The Lord is King forever and ever; The nations will perish from His land.
- Psalms 93:1The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty and splendor; The Lord has clothed and encircled Himself with strength; the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved.
- Psalms 99:1The Lord reigns, let the peoples tremble [with submissive wonder]! He sits enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake!
- Daniel 2:44In the days of those [final ten] kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left for another people; but it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
- Matthew 6:13And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’
- 1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King of the ages [eternal], immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Commentaries on Psalms 29:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10The Lord sitteth upon the flood - ישב למבול יהוה Jehovah lammabbul yasheb, "Jehovah sat upon the deluge." It was Jehovah that commanded those waters to be upon the earth. He directed the storm; and is here represented, after all the confusion and tempest, as sitting on the floods, appeasing the fury of the jarring elements; and reducing all things, by his governing influence, to regularity and order. Sitteth king for ever - He governs universal nature…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10The Lord sitteth upon the flood - God is enthroned upon the flood, or presides over it. The obvious meaning is, that God is enthroned upon the storm, or presides over that which produces such consternation. It is not undirected; it is not the result of chance or fate; it is not produced by mere physical laws; it is not without restraint - without a ruler - for Yahweh presides over all, and all this may be regarded as his throne. Compare the notes at Psalm…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The image of strong floodwaters relates to the great flood (Genesis 6:17). The Lord rules as king over all creation. No one challenges his kingdom.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1110-11. Over this terrible raging of the elements God is enthroned, directing and restraining by sovereign power; and hence the comfort of His people. "This awful God is ours, our Father and our Love."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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