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Psalms 29:7
7The voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning.
Psalms 29:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The voice of the Lord strikes with bolts of lightning.
Context of Psalms 29:7
5The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 6He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning. 8The voice of the Lord shakes the desert; the Lord shakes the Desert of Kadesh. 9The voice of the Lord twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
Read all of Psalms 29Psalms 29:7 word by word
קוֹל־יְהוָ֥ה חֹצֵ֗ב לַהֲב֥וֹת אֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 29:7
- Psalms 77:18Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
- Psalms 144:5Part your heavens, Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
- Exodus 9:23When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;
- Leviticus 10:2So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
- Numbers 16:35And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
- 2 Kings 1:10Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.
- Job 37:3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
- Job 38:35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Commentaries on Psalms 29:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Divideth the flames of fire - The forked zigzag lightning is the cause of thunder; and in a thunder-storm these liahtnings are variously dispersed, smiting houses, towers, trees, men, and cattle, in different places.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Divideth the flames of fire - Margin, “cutteth out.” The Hebrew word - חצב châtsab - means properly “to cut, to hew, to hew out;” as, for example, stones. The allusion here is undoubtedly to lightning; and the image is either that it seems to be cut out, or cut into tongues and streaks - or, more probably, that the “clouds” seem to be cut or hewed so as to make openings or paths for the lightning. The eye is evidently fixed on the clouds, and on the…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. 77. divideth--literally, "hews off." The lightning, like flakes and splinters hewed from stone or wood, flies through the air.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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