Psalms 29:4

Amplified Bible

The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.

English Revised Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Update Bible Version
The voice of Yahweh is powerful; The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.

New Century Version
The Lord 's voice is powerful; the Lord 's voice is majestic.

New English Translation
The Lord 's shout is powerful, the Lord 's shout is majestic.

Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty.

World English Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.

English Standard Version
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of the Lord in vertu; the vois of the Lord in greet doyng.

Berean Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

Contemporary English Version
and his voice is mighty and marvelous.

American Standard Version
The voice of Jehovah is powerful; The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

Bible in Basic English
The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

Complete Jewish Bible
the voice of Adonai in power, the voice of Adonai in splendor.

Darby Translation
The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's voice is powerful. It shows the Lord 's glory.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

King James Version (1611)
The voice of the Lord is powerfull; the voyce of the Lord is full of Maiestie.

New Life Bible
The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is great.

New Revised Standard
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The voyce of the Lorde is mightie: the voyce of the Lord is glorious.

George Lamsa Translation
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Good News Translation
The voice of the Lord is heard in all its might and majesty.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The voice of Yahweh, is with power, The voice of Yahweh, is with majesty;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(28-4) The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in magnificence.

Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The voyce of God is with power: the voyce of God is with honour.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

Christian Standard Bible®
the voice of the Lord in power,the voice of the Lord in splendor.

Hebrew Names Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful. The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

King James Version
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

Lexham English Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is majestic.

Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah is in power; the voice of Jehovah in majesty.

Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah [is] with power, The voice of Jehovah [is] with majesty,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
it is the LORDE yt ruleth the see.

THE MESSAGE
God 's thunder tympanic, God 's thunder symphonic.

New American Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful, The voice of the LORD is majestic.

New King James Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The voice of the Lord is powerful, The voice of the Lord is majestic.

Legacy Standard Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful,The voice of Yahweh is full of splendor.

Contextual Overview

¹Ascribe to the LORD, O sons of the mighty, Ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. ²Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; Worship the LORD in the beauty and majesty of His holiness [as the creator and source of holiness]. ³The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; The God of glory thunders; The LORD is over many waters. ⁴The 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 breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion (Mount Hermon) like a young, wild ox. ⁷The voice of the LORD rakes flames of fire (lightning). ⁸The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹The voice of the LORD makes the doe labor and give birth And strips the forests bare; And in His temple all are saying, "Glory!" ¹⁰The LORD sat as King at the flood; Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

powerful: Heb. in power, Psalms 33:9, Job 26:11-14, Jeremiah 51:15, Jeremiah 51:16, Luke 4:36, Luke 8:25

full of: Heb. in, Job 40:9-12, Isaiah 66:6, Ezekiel 10:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:28 - mighty thunderings 1 Chronicles 29:11 - majesty Job 37:22 - with Psalms 18:13 - Highest Proverbs 17:8 - gift

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together to go from Ur of the Chaldeans into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran [about five hundred and fifty miles northwest of Ur], they settled there.

Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels, and set out, taking some of his master's good things with him; so he got up and journeyed to Mesopotamia [between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers], to the city of Nahor [the home of Abraham's brother].

Genesis 27:43
"So now, my son, listen and do what I say; go, escape to my brother Laban in Haran!

Genesis 28:10
Now Jacob left Beersheba [never to see his mother again] and traveled toward Haran.

Acts 7:2
And he answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory [the Shekinah, the radiance of God] appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Acts 7:4
"Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God sent him to this country in which you now live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The voice of the Lord [is] powerful,.... Or "with power" a; as thunder, in the effect of it, shows; and so is the Gospel, when it comes, not in word only, but is attended with the power of God to the conversion and salvation of souls; it is then quick and powerful, Hebrews 4:12; and the word of Christ personal, when here on earth, was with power, Luke 4:32;

the voice of the Lord [is] full of majesty; Christ, in his state of humiliation, spake and taught as one having authority; and now, in the ministration of his Gospel by his servants, he goes forth with glory and majesty, Psalms 45:3.

a בכח "in potentia", Pagninus, Montanus; "cum potentia", Cocceius, Michaelis; "with able power", Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 29:4. Is 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 that of thunder; it is the most fit to represent the voice of God.