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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Psalms 29"
description: "PSALM 29   :-. Trust in God is encouraged by the celebration of His
mighty power as illustrated in His dominion over the natural world,
in some of its mos"
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PSALM 29

. Trust in God is encouraged by the celebration of His
mighty power as illustrated in His dominion over the natural world,
in some of its most terrible and wonderful exhibitions.

**1. Give**—or, "ascribe"
([Deuteronomy 32:3](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/3)).
**mighty**—or, "sons
of the mighty" ([Psalms 89:6](../../../kjv/psalms/89/6)).
Heavenly beings, as angels.

**2. name**—as ([Psalms 5:11](../../../kjv/psalms/5/11);
[Psalms 8:1](../../../kjv/psalms/8/1)).
**beauty of holiness**—the
loveliness of a spiritual worship, of which the perceptible beauty of
the sanctuary worship was but a type.

**3. The voice of the Lord**—audible
exhibition of His power in the tempest, of which thunder is a
specimen, but not the uniform or sole example.
**the waters**—the clouds
or vapors ([Psalms 18:11](../../../kjv/psalms/18/11); [Jeremiah 10:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/13)).

**4. powerful . . . majesty**—literally,
"in power, in majesty."

**5, 6.** The tall and large cedars,
especially of Lebanon, are shivered, utterly broken. The waving of
the mountain forests before the wind is expressed by the figure of
skipping or leaping.

**7. divideth**—literally, "hews
off." The lightning, like flakes and splinters hewed from stone
or wood, flies through the air.

**8. the wilderness**—especially
Kadesh, south of Judea, is selected as another scene of this display
of divine power, as a vast and desolate region impresses the mind,
like mountains, with images of grandeur.

**9.** Terror-stricken animals and
denuded forests close the illustration. In view of this scene of
awful sublimity, God's worshippers respond to the call of , and speak or cry, "Glory!" By "temple,"
or "palace" (God's residence, ), may here be meant heaven, or the whole frame of nature, as
the angels are called on for praise.

**10, 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."

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