New King James Version
Psalms 29:7
7The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire.
Psalms 29:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.
- New International Version (NIV)The voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The voice of the Lord flashes forth 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, Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon. 6He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. 8The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh. 9The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth, And strips the forests bare; And in His temple everyone says, “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 77:18The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.
- Psalms 144:5Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
- Exodus 9:23And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire darted to the ground. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 10:2So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
- Numbers 16:35And a fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.
- 2 Kings 1:10So Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
- Job 37:3He sends it forth under the whole heaven, His lightning to the ends of the earth.
- Job 38:35Can you send out lightnings, that they may go, And say 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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