Psalms 29:7

Amplified Bible

The voice of the LORD rakes flames of fire (lightning).

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The voice of the Lord strikes with bolts of lightning.

English Revised Version
The voice of the LORD cleaveth the flames of fire.

Update Bible Version
The voice of Yahweh splits the flames of fire.

New Century Version
The Lord 's voice makes the lightning flash.

New English Translation
The Lord 's shout strikes with flaming fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

World English Bible
The voice of Yahweh strikes with flashes of lightning.

English Standard Version
The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of the Lord departynge the flawme of fier;

Berean Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.

Contemporary English Version
The voice of the Lord makes lightning flash

American Standard Version
The voice of Jehovah cleaveth the flames of fire.

Bible in Basic English
At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen.

Complete Jewish Bible
The voice of Adonai flashes fiery flames;

Darby Translation
The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's voice cuts the air with flashes of lightning.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The voice of the LORD heweth out flames of fire.

King James Version (1611)
The voyce of the Lord diuideth the flames of fire.

New Life Bible
The voice of the Lord sends out lightning.

New Revised Standard
The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The voice of the Lord deuideth the flames of sire.

George Lamsa Translation
The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

Good News Translation
The voice of the Lord makes the lightning flash.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The voice of Yahweh, is cleaving out flames of fire;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(28-7) The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire:

Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The voyce of God casteth out flambes of fire:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is a voice of the Lord who divides a flame of fire.

Christian Standard Bible®
The voice of the Lord flashes flames of fire.

Hebrew Names Version
The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.

King James Version
The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.

Lexham English Bible
The voice of Yahweh flashes flames of fire.

Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah is cutting through the flame of fire.

Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He maketh them to skippe like a calfe: Libanus and Sirion like a yonge vnycorne.

THE MESSAGE
God 's thunder spits fire. God thunders, the wilderness quakes; He makes the desert of Kadesh shake.

New American Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD divides flames of fire.

New King James Version
The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The voice of the Lord hews out flames of fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
The voice of Yahweh hews out flames of fire.

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

divideth: Heb. cutteth out

flames: Psalms 77:18, Psalms 144:5, Psalms 144:6, Exodus 9:23, Leviticus 10:2, Numbers 16:35, 2 Kings 1:10-12, Job 37:3, Job 38:35

Reciprocal: Psalms 89:16 - name

Cross-References

Genesis 29:9
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Genesis 29:10
When Jacob saw [his cousin] Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban's sheep, he came up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban, his uncle.

Ephesians 5:16
making the very most of your time [on earth, recognizing and taking advantage of each opportunity and using it with wisdom and diligence], because the days are [filled with] evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. Or "cutteth with flames of fire" e; that is, the thunder breaks through the clouds with flames of fire, or lightning, as that is sometimes called,

Psalms 105:32; and with which it cleaves asunder trees and masts of ships, cuts and hews them down, and divides them into a thousand shivers. Some refer this, in the figurative and mystical sense, to the giving of the law on Mount Sinai f, on which the Lord descended in fire, and from his right hand went a fiery law; but rather this may be applied to the cloven or divided tongues of fire which sat upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost, as an emblem of the extraordinary gifts of the Spirit bestowed on them; though it seems best of all, as before, to understand this of the voice of Christ in the Gospel, which cuts and hews down all the goodliness of men, and lays them to the ground, Hosea 6:5; and is of a dividing nature, and lays open all the secrets of the heart, Hebrews 4:12; and, through the corruption or human nature, is the occasion of dividing one friend from another, Luke 12:51; and like flames of fire it has both light and heat in it; it is the means of enlightening men's eyes to see their sad estate, and their need of Christ, and salvation by him; and of warming their souls with its refreshing truths and promises, and of inflaming their love to God and Christ, and of setting their affections on things above, and of causing their hearts to burn within them.

e חצב להבות אש "caedit cum flammis ignis", Cocceius, Gejerus. f Jarchi in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Divideth 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 sudden flash of lightning, as if the clouds had been “cleaved” or “opened” for the passage of it. The idea of the psalmist is that the “voice of the Lord,” or the thunder, seems to cleave or open the clouds for the flames of fire to play amidst the tempest. Of course this language, as well as that which has been already noticed Psalms 29:5, must be taken as denoting what “appears” to the eye, and not as a scientific statement of the reality in the case. The rolling thunder not only shakes the cedars, and makes the lofty trees on Lebanon and Sirion skip like a calf or a young unicorn, but it rends asunder or cleaves the clouds, and cuts out paths for the flames of fire.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 29:7. Divideth the flames of fire. — The forked zigzag lightning is the cause of thunder; and in a thunder-storm these lightnings are variously dispersed, smiting houses, towers, trees, men, and cattle, in different places.