God’s Word Translation
Psalms 29:4
4The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is majestic.
Psalms 29:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
- New International Version (NIV)The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The voice of the Lord is powerful; The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Context of Psalms 29:4
2Give to the Lord the glory his name deserves. Worship the Lord in ⌞his⌟ holy splendor. 3The voice of the Lord rolls over the water. The God of glory thunders. The Lord shouts over raging water. The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is majestic. 5The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. The Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon. 6He makes Lebanon skip along like a calf and Mount Sirion like a wild ox.
Read all of Psalms 29Psalms 29:4 word by word
קוֹל־יְהוָ֥ה בַּכֹּ֑חַ ק֥וֹל יְ֝הוָ֗ה בֶּהָדָֽר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 29:4
- Psalms 33:9He spoke, and it came into being. He gave the order, and there it stood.
- Job 26:11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished when he yells at them.
- Jeremiah 51:15The Lord made the earth by his power. He set up the world by his wisdom. He stretched out heaven by his understanding.
- Luke 4:36Everyone was stunned. They said to one another, “What kind of command is this? With authority and power he gives orders to evil spirits, and they come out.”
- Luke 8:25He asked them, “Where is your faith?” Frightened and amazed, they asked each other, “Who is this man? He gives orders to the wind and the water, and they obey him!”
- Job 40:9Do you have power like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his?
- Isaiah 66:6Listen to the uproar from the city. Listen to the sound from the temple. It is the sound of the Lord paying back his enemies as they deserve.
- Ezekiel 10:5The sound of the angels’ wings was heard as far as the outer courtyard. It was like the sound of the Almighty God when he speaks.
Commentaries on Psalms 29:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Is powerful - There is no agent in universal nature so powerful as the electric fluid. It destroys life, tears castles and towers to pieces, rends the strongest oaks, and cleaves the most solid rocks: universal animate nature is awed and terrified by it. To several of these effects the psalmist here refers; and for the illustration of the whole I must refer to the above notes on Job. Full of majesty - No sound in nature is so tremendous and majestic as…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4The voice of the Lord is powerful - Margin, as in Hebrew: “in power.” That is, is mighty; or, has strength. Allusion may be made to what seems to be the effect of thunder in prostrating trees, or tearing off their limbs, or it may be merely to the loud sound of the thunder. Is full of majesty - Margin, as in Hebrew, “in majesty.” That is, it is grand, sublime, overpowering.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-9The Hebrew word qol can mean "voice," "noise" (1 Kings 1:45), or "thunder" (Joel 3:16). The Lord's voice is awe-inspiring and overpowers any sounds people might attribute to other gods.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. powerful ... majesty--literally, "in power, in majesty."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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