New King James Version
Psalms 29:4
4The voice of the Lord is powerful; The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
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 Living Translation (NLT)The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.
Context of Psalms 29:4
2Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 3The voice of the Lord is over the waters; The God of glory thunders; The Lord is over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. 5The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon. 6He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young 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 33:9For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
- Job 26:11The pillars of heaven tremble, And are astonished at His rebuke.
- Jeremiah 51:15He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, And stretched out the heaven by His understanding.
- Luke 4:36Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, “What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.”
- Luke 8:25But He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!”
- Job 40:9Have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?
- Isaiah 66:6The sound of noise from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord, Who fully repays His enemies!
- Ezekiel 10:5And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of 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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